iStockphoto Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Probing The Unknowable Mysteries Of The Brain December 4, 2013 • Is the brain a sort of quantum computer? What is consciousness? Marcelo Gleiser's brain is buzzing with big questions after participating in a conference that asked if quantum physics plays a role in how we think.
How does our subjective reality emerge from the physical structures of the brain and body? iStockphoto.com hide caption toggle caption iStockphoto.com Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The Nature Of Consciousness: A Question Without An Answer? August 7, 2013 • We don't know how the brain creates consciousness, the subjective you. So, can machines do it, too? Commentator Marcelo Gleiser confronts "the hard problem of consciousness" and finds a world in which what we can know may have its limits.
