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

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

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

Metaphors invite ways of thinking. If philosophical disagreements are battles, only one side can win. If memory is a storehouse, recollection requires search and retrieval (but maybe not if memory is ...

In everyday life, it is common to hear someone say, "I just had a thought" or "the thought just occurred to me." For instance, one may have a thought about an event that took place during the last ...

You’ve heard the expression: there’s a new sheriff in town. Well, there’s a new leader in town: the conscious leader. The purpose-driven, conscious leader is rare. More common is the ego-driven ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study 1 of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

The theory of unconscious thought proposes that our cognitive systems continuously process complex information without deliberate effort. This mode of thinking is contrasted with the more deliberate, ...