Brain researchers are overturning decades of dogma. Forget simple causal chains from genes to brain to behavior. Instead, argues award-winning neuroscientist Nicole Rust, the brain is a dynamic ...

Join Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose as he outlines his views on quantum mechanics, Gödel's incompleteness theorem and consciousness. He also provides a glimpse into his visual thought process and ...

Join renowned psychotherapist Susie Orbach for an in-depth interview in which she discusses whether psychotherapy has made us healthier, how our body trumps our mind in our contemporary society, and ...

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What is our inheritance as humans, and why is it important?

In this intimate interview esteemed biologist Denis Noble reflects on a life of experience working at the forefront of computational physiology. Here, he reflects on how his view that organisms lead ...

From Aristotle to Darwin and Schrödinger to Marie Curie, understanding life has been a scientific and philosophical goal since humans were first able to conceptualise their subjectivity. Sam McKee ...

The world's greatest minds have struggled over the question of consciousness for centuries. Idealism, the idea that reality is the product of the mind, was a popular idea in the 19th century. But over ...

Constructive empiricists believe that, even if a scientific theory makes numerous correct experimental predictions, we are not justified in believing that it tells us anything about reality--all ...

Popularised by Dawkins' work The Selfish Gene, we think genes are the blueprint for life. But might this commonly-held view of biology and evolution be mistaken? Join renowned Oxford biologist, Denis ...

Artificial intelligence is getting increasingly good at solving mathematical problems. A few days ago, OpenAI reported that one of its models had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven ...

The physicist Antony Valentini recently argued in IAI News that quantum mechanics is a straightforward—though incomplete—description of material reality. Today, philosopher and former Director of ...