Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the ...

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

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

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

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

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

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose consciousness under anesthesia.

Purposes of pleasure and pain? Our conscious experience makes up our lives, often through positive pleasure: I feel the warm sun on my skin, I hear the singing of birds, I enjoy the moment. Yet we ...

Consciousness is what we are most familiar with. Feeling the sun's warmth on our face, the joy of seeing someone we love, or the thrill of being on a rollercoaster—every single experience we ever had, ...

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? This question, once confined to science fiction, now occupies a central place in ethical and scientific discussions. A philosopher from the University of ...

Research indicates that pets and other animals have conscious experiences similar to us. Source: Ryan Walton | Unsplash Researchers have found that looking at a picture of a pet can reduce stress (Ein ...