In his original essay, philosopher Thomas Nagel analyzes the existence of subjects originating from the material world. Using the example o...

Consciousness was discussed extensively in previous thoughts . These are further clarifications:   How can consciousness be unique? Consciou...

One of the most fundamental questions about the mind concerns its relationship to the body (and, more specifically, its relationship to the ...

The Chinese room argument described by John Searle is a thought-experiment (Wikipedia) demonstrating that a program based computer is ca...

This is an old philosophical debate, why consciousness exists, what we gained with it, and what its evolutionary advantage is. Can a zomb...