Consciousness may arise from something beyond cognition, researcher argues
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-01
A brief viewpoint: you don't have to treat the human brain as "magic" to believe something besides cognition in the brain causes consciousness—a nuance in the ongoing debate over whether cognitive processes fully explain conscious experience.
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