Now, an ambitious Microsoft-funded project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is studying the neural activity ...

In theory building, the “definitive definition” of a phenomenon is the end, and not the beginning, of scientific inquiry. This post is part 2 of a series. For part 1, click here .

There is no standard definition of consciousness, but my 2019 book Brain-Mind analyzes it using exemplars (standard examples), typical features, and explanations.

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be measured ...