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“But understanding consciousness has become increasingly important for researchers seeking to communicate with locked-in patients, determine whether artificial intelligence systems can become conscious, or explore whether animals experience consciousness the way humans do.”


Sarah Reardon, Science Magazine

A short video, produced by TWCF, that tells the story of COGITATE’s Adversarial Collaboration, featuring scientists’ Daniel Kahneman, Christof Koch, Lucia Melloni, and TWCF’s Virginia Cooper.

Nature | The consciousness debate: round two | written by Miryam Naddaf

December 18, 2023

Nautilus | Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet How the wager between a neuroscientist and a philosopher will keep paying off | written by Anil Seth

July 5, 2023

New York Times | 2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off | Written by Carl Zimmer

July 1, 2023

The Economist | Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness

June 28, 2023

Forbes Magazine | The $30 Million Gamified Search For Consciousness

February 20, 2022

IFL Science | What is Consciousness? featuring Dr Liad Mudrik

September, 2021

Science Magazine | Rival theories face off over brain’s source of consciousness

October 2019

Quanta Magazine | Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas

March 2019

Brain Mind Summit | The 3Cs Project: Collaborating to Crack Consciousness

April 2020

Illustration by David Parkins

Nature | The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works? | written by Miriana Lenharo, illustration by David Parkins

January 17, 2024

German Radio | Philosophy meets experiment | featuring Lucia Melloni, Christof Koch, Alex Lepauvre and others

December 25, 2023

Quanta | What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved | written by Elizabeth Finkel

August 24, 2023

The Debrief | 25-Year Academic Wager Settled As The Mystery of Consciousness Remains Elusive | written by Tim McMillan

June 27, 2023

Science Alert | 25-Year Search For The Source of Consciousness Ends – And Neuroscience Lost This One | written by Mike McRae
June 27, 2023

New Scientist | How does consciousness arise? A 25-year-old bet has now been decided | written by Alexis Wnuk

June 26, 2023

Scientific American | A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled

June 26, 2023

Nature | Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0

Photo credit: Aya Khalaf

June 24 2023

Consciousness Live with Richard Brown | Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, Michael Pitts Live!

July 2021

Financial Times | Consciousness is one of science’s final frontiers

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