Abstract Models of consciousness aim to inspire new experimental protocols and aid
interpretation of empirical evidence to reveal the structure of conscious experience …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

Characterizing consciousness in and of itself is notoriously difficult. Here, we propose an
alternative approach to characterize, and eventually define, consciousness through …

One of the most salient features of life is its capacity to handle novelty and namely to thrive
and adapt to new circumstances and changes in both the environment and internal …

Recent activities in virtually all fields engaged in consciousness studies indicate early signs
of a structural turn, where verbal descriptions or simple formalisations of conscious …

The evolution of the biosphere unfolds as a luxuriant generative process of new living forms
and functions. Organisms adapt to their environment, exploit novel opportunities that are …

In recent years, promising mathematical models have been proposed that aim to describe
conscious experience and its relation to the physical domain. Whereas the axioms and …

Our conscious experience of the world seems to go in lockstep with our attentional focus: We
tend to see, hear, taste, and feel what we attend to, and vice versa. This tight coupling …

Conscious experiences are characterized by mental qualities, such as those involved in
seeing red, feeling pain, or smelling cinnamon. The standard framework for modeling mental …

The boundary problem is related to the binding problem, part of a family of puzzles and
phenomenal experiences that theories of consciousness (ToC) must either explain or …