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  • The Fiction in Our Identity

    Have you ever remembered something so clearly that you were 100% positive in its retelling, only to second-guess yourself as soon as a contradiction surfaces? This...

  • The Limits of Understanding

    This statement is false. Think about it, and it makes your head hurt. If it’s true, it’s false. If it’s false, it’s true. In 1931, Austrian logician Kurt Gödel shocked...

  • Persistence of Memory

    Our memories are the aggregate of our life experiences. They shape who we are in a big way. Giulio Tononi, an award-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist, has made this study...

  • Democratic System in Our Heads

    Take a look at an object. Now, try to view only the left half of it. You’ll find no matter how hard you try, you will always be conscious of both halves. This is the result of...

  • Consciousness: Explored and Explained

    Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich. Part theater of the absurd and part neuroscience...

  • Dreams, Darkness, and Consciousness

    What is consciousness? Where does it go when we sleep? When we dream? Does consciousness need external stimuli—light, matter, a world—to be conscious of? Neuroscientist and...

  • The Stranger You’ve Become

    Who are you more like: yourself or your best friend? Seems simple enough. But maybe it isn’t? Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi wrestles with this rhetorical question with filmmaker...

  • Two Minds in One Brain

    Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi discusses the the bizarre phenomenon of “split-brain” patients with filmmaker Charlie Kaufman. More than inspiring interesting cinema and art, real...

  • Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking

    Creative thought is surely among our most precious and mysterious capabilities. But can powerful computers rival the human brain? As thinking, remembering, and innovating become...

  • In a Coma, Do We Cease to Exist?

    What happens when someone slips into a vegetative state? Do they feel pain? Do they think? Without consciousness, do they ostensibly cease to exist? Such questions have haunted...

  • How to Define Consciousness?

    Known for centuries as “the difficult problem,” the question of how to define consciousness has troubled philosophers for generations. Here, leading intellectuals from varying...

  • Creating Consciousness

    Can consciousness be created? Is there a range of types of consciousness? In reaction to a thought experiment proposed by John Hockenberry, philosopher Luciano Floridi and John...

Blog Posts

  • Does consciousness need a world?

    What is consciousness? Where does it go when we sleep? When we dream? Does consciousness need external stimuli—light, matter, a world—to be conscious of? Neuroscientist and sleep expert Giulio Tononi sheds light on these difficult questions.

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