When a large number of similar entities interact among each other and with their
environment at a low scale, unexpected outcomes at higher spatio-temporal scales might …

Recent research has demonstrated the potential of psychedelic therapy for mental health
care. However, the psychological experience underlying its therapeutic effects remains …

How is the information-processing architecture of the human brain organised, and how does
its organisation support consciousness? Here, we combine network science and a rigorous …

Since its introduction, the partial information decomposition (PID) has emerged as a
powerful, information-theoretic technique useful for studying the structure of (potentially …

High-level brain functions are widely believed to emerge from the orchestrated activity of
multiple neural systems. However, lacking a formal definition and practical quantification of …

A resurgence of panpsychism and dualism is a matter of ongoing debate in modern
neuroscience. Although metaphysically hostile, panpsychism and dualism both persist in the …

We apply the methodology of no-go theorems as developed in physics to the question of
artificial consciousness. The result is a no-go theorem which shows that under a general …

“Emergence”, the phenomenon where a complex system displays properties, behaviours, or
dynamics not trivially reducible to its constituent elements, is one of the defining properties of …

We introduce a notion of emergence for macroscopic variables associated with highly
multivariate microscopic dynamical processes. Dynamical independence instantiates the …

A core feature of complex systems is that the interactions between elements in the present
causally constrain their own futures, and the futures of other elements as the system evolves …