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

Study Shows Your Eyes See, But Your Brain Doesn’t Process During Mental Absences In A Nutshell Consciousness may actually pause while you’re awake. The brain patterns during mind blanking resemble ...

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

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

Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

For centuries, philosophers have grappled with the mystery of consciousness: the unique inner world that seems fundamental to human existence. Despite the long-standing challenge of finding a ...

What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's ...

Do trees have minds? A friend posed this question during one of the high school afternoons we habitually spent—no doubt with too much time on our hands—engaging in amateur philosophical banter. It ...

Popular science often feels like a kind of voyeurism. Those who can’t manage the real thing are given a thrilling glimpse of its intrigue and excitement but kept at a distance. So a book that tackles ...