FRANCIS CRICK and CHRISTOF KOCH share an interest in the experimental study of
consciousness. Crick is the co-discoverer, with James Watson, of the double helical …

The overwhelrrting question in neurobi ology today is the relation between the mind and the
brain. Everyone agrees that what we know as mind is closely related to certain aspects of …

To kick things off, two friends—David Chalmers, a philosopher, and Christof Koch, a
neuroscientist—took the stage to recall an old bet. In June 1998, they had gone to a …

Much has recently been written about the subject of consciousness, thanks to the revival of
interest in disciplines as various as philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and …

“I have grown accustomed to the disrespect expressed by some of the participants for their
colleagues in the other disciplines.'Why [...]'ask the people in Artificial Intelligence,'do you …

This paper attempts to begin to answer four questions.(1) What is consciousness?(2) What is
the relation of consciousness to the brain?(3) What are some of the features that an …

Few problems have had as interesting an intellectual trajectory through history as that of the
mind and its place in nature. Before 1859, the year that Darwin and Wallace independently …

The concept of consciousness is multifaceted, and steeped in cultural and intellectual
history. This paper explores its complexities by way of a series of contrasts:(i) states of …

It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now, John
Searle writes," the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is …

Consciousness has never been a topic that lends itself naturally to sober, intellectual
discourse. This is hardly surprising, really, given that what's at stake is nothing less than the …