The consciousness debate is often trapped between two extremes: either the brain is “just software” (computational ...

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Theory of Computation offers a rigorous mathematical framework that underpins our understanding of what can be computed and how efficiently these computations may be performed. It encompasses ...

Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...