4 papers in the library · 5 citations · publishing 2022-2025
September 17, 2025 Sergey B. Yurchenko
Science has made great strides in answering many questions, but there are three major mysteries that most likely can never be solved. Despite belonging to different branches of science physics, biology, and neurosciencethey share the same problem that sets a fundamental limit to the very nature of human knowledge. These are fundamental inquiries into the origins of the universe, life, and...
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews October 1, 2024 Sergey B. Yurchenko 5 citations
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 science of consciousness because the former is proposed as a straightforward answer to the problem of integrating consciousness into the fabric of physical reality, whereas the latter proposes a simple solution to the problem...
Bio Systems July 1, 2023 Sergey B. Yurchenko
Is information the other face of causation? This issue cannot be clarified without discussing how these both are related to physical laws, logic, computation, networks, bio-signaling, and the mind-body problem. The relation between information and causation is also intrinsically linked to many other concepts in complex systems theory such as emergence, self-organization, synergy, criticality,...
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience November 4, 2022 Sergey B. Yurchenko
There are now dozens of very different theories of consciousness, each somehow contributing to our understanding of its nature. The science of consciousness needs therefore not new theories but a general framework integrating insights from those, yet not making it a still-born “Frankenstein” theory. First, the framework must operate explicitly on the stream of consciousness, not on its static...