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

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

How consciousness arises in the brain is no clearer after two big theories go head-to-head, but the competition's design could push the field forward. “Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes ...

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

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

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

Thus, she believes Nirvanic's work on artificial consciousness could make an impact on organic consciousness in two key ways. "One is in trying to understand ways in which we can improve people's ...

A team of researchers has outlined a new approach for better understanding the depths of animal consciousness, a method that may yield new insights into the similarities and differences among living ...

From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and ...

Have you ever wondered what makes you "you"? What creates the feeling of being aware, of experiencing the world around you? Scientists call this consciousness, and it's one of the biggest mysteries we ...