Chalmers, now 50, was born and raised in Australia. His parents split up when he was five. “My father is a medical researcher, a pretty successful scientist and administrator in medicine in Australia… ...

This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...

When Carlo Rovelli's bicycle chain comes off, he calls a bike-shop mechanic, never a particle physicist - even though ...

TWENTY years ago this week, two young men sat in a smoky bar in Bremen, northern Germany. Neuroscientist Christof Koch and philosopher David Chalmers had spent the day lecturing at a conference about ...

There are easy problems, and there are hard problems. Let’s get the easy one out of the way first. Understanding how the brain reacts to certain stimuli is relatively easy. If you stub your toe, ...