Alin C. Cucu

Alin Christoph Cucu (PhD, University of Lausanne) is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of several peer-reviewed papers on mind-body-interaction, and co-editor of the anthology “Religious Hypotheses and the Study of Human Nature” (in Romanian, Institutul European). His co-authored paper “How Dualists Should (Not) Respond to the Objection From Energy Conservation” (with J. Brian Pitts) was awarded the Best Paper Prize of the Mind and Matter Society. In recent years he won three Templeton grants in Romania for research projects at the intersection of theology, philosophy and science. His research focuses on soul-body-dualism, the Christian worldview vs. the modern worldview, and the philosophy of C.S. Lewis.

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Science of Consciousness: The Elephant in the Room

Science has had great success in explaining many functions of living organisms in purely material terms. So why not consciousness?
After repeated failures to explain consciousness, there’s a new path in the science of consciousness that promises to be the final theory of consciousness.