In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's ...

What is the nature of your reality? What if your consciousness, your subjective reality, does not bring you closer to the objective reality of our world? This is the question that Professor Donald ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...

The only reason humans know about the existence of consciousness — the phenomenon of having subjective feelings and experiences — is because we have feelings and experiences. But despite centuries of ...

A radical new theory from Professor Maria Strømme suggests that consciousness may not originate in the brain but instead exist as a universal field, with individual minds acting like temporary waves ...