Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: “Can’t we all just get along?” They analyzed how five major theories of ...

The hero is dying, yet they miraculously muster up the energy to utter something profound, some last-minute understanding of ...

What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...

This is an example of a higher state of consciousness – or, in my preferred term, an awakening experience. Awakening ...

But I don’t ever observe your experience,” says Robert Chis-Ciure, a postdoctoral researcher studying consciousness at the University of Sussex in England. Scientists have landed on two leading ...

Human consciousness may result from “mental time travel, ” the ability to simulate past and future events, which could ...