I recently watched an EDGE lecture by one of my favorite mavericks, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, my personal touchstone to rational person behavior. His piece was on “adversarial collaboration, ...

Staging an angry winner-take-all debate was, for many years, seen as the only way to settle a protracted academic dispute. But a project that has asked social scientists to work together when they ...

An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and ...

A group photo from the original meeting in March 2018 at the Allen Institute in Seattle, WA, that kicked off the set of adversarial collaborations. IIT suggests that consciousness emerges when ...