Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a higher dimension, potentially enabling it to transcend the physical constraints ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

“I think, therefore I am,” René Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, famously wrote in 1637. His idea was straightforward: even if your senses, the world, or your body ...

Scientists still do not understand why we have subjective experiences or awareness. This is known as the “hard problem” of consciousness. One company is testing a theory of consciousness using a robot ...

If you don’t know anything about neuroscience, that’s okay — one researcher’s striking theory might send us all back to the start anyway. Consciousness is typically defined as immediate awareness of ...

A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first ...

The neuron, the specialized cell type that makes up much of our brain, is at the center of today’s neuroscience. Neuroscientists explain perception, memory, cognition and even consciousness itself as ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

A revolutionary theory has emerged suggesting that the enigma of human consciousness could be intricately linked with the elusive dark matter. This idea invites us to delve into the uncharted ...