Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest
and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and …

Biological organisms display remarkably flexible behaviours. This is an area of active
investigation, in particular in the fields of artificial intelligence, computational and cognitive …

Blindsight regroups the different manifestations of preserved discriminatory visual capacities
following the damage to the primary visual cortex. Blindsight types differentially impact …

Does perceptual awareness arise within the sensory regions of the brain or within higher-
level regions (eg, the frontal lobe)? To answer this question, researchers traditionally …

Despite the tangible progress in psychological and cognitive sciences over the last several
years, these disciplines still trail other more mature sciences in identifying the most important …

Current dominant views hold that perceptual confidence reflects the probability that a
decision is correct. Although these views have enjoyed some empirical support, recent …

Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception,
nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fear the activation of “threat circuitry” …

Is perceptual processing in dedicated sensory areas sufficient for conscious perception?
Localists say,'Yes—given some background conditions.'Prefrontalists say,'No: conscious …

Phillips argues that blindsight is due to response criterion artifacts under degraded
conscious vision. His view provides alternative explanations for some studies, but may not …

Introspection is a fundamental part of our mental lives. Nevertheless, its reliability and its
underlying cognitive architecture have been widely disputed. Here, I propose a principled …