The New Science of Consciousness

Neuroscience

Consciousness and Intrinsic Brain Information

Paul L. Nunez PhD on July 27, 2023

Examining relations between information and consciousness.

Neuroscience

Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory

Paul L. Nunez PhD on December 13, 2021

A healthy consciousness seems to require a proper synthesis of specialization and integration within the brain.

Neuroscience

What Constitutes a Genuine Theory of Consciousness?

Paul L. Nunez PhD on July 1, 2021

What are the necessary and sufficient conditions for consciousness to occur? Can we ever discover a genuine theory of consciousness? How will we know if we do find one?

Consumer Behavior

Complexity, Physics, and the Emergence of Consciousness

Paul L. Nunez PhD on April 16, 2019

Environmental influences on the evolution of life may play a more central role in consciousness than most assume, involving some sort of “ultra-information."

Neuroscience

Shadows of Thought

Paul L. Nunez PhD on July 29, 2018

What can the physics of fields tell us about consciousness?

Neuroscience

Brain Fields, Complexity, and Consciousness

Paul L. Nunez PhD on November 12, 2017

Complexity science provides a means to measure consciousness in coma and semi-conscious patients.

Neuroscience

Does the Brain Create the Mind? Speculation on Consciousness

Paul L. Nunez PhD on June 9, 2017

What can science tell us about the hard problem, finding the origins of consciousness?

Health

What Makes the Human Brain “Human?” Part 2

Paul L. Nunez PhD on May 25, 2017

How do “small world” connections contribute to brain complexity and a healthy mind?

Memory

What Makes the Human Brain “Human?” Part 1

Paul L. Nunez PhD on April 16, 2017

A quick introduction to some possible anatomical underpinnings of higher consciousness in humans and other animals.

Neuroscience

Brain Dynamic Patterns and the Mind

Paul L. Nunez PhD on March 6, 2017

The mystery of consciousness is approached from several materialistic or dualistic perspectives. Brain activity patterns play a critical role; could the patterns be fractals?