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, ...

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

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a "revolution of conscience," Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said during a Jan. 18. Mass.

Ttremendous progress has been made on so many levels" to combat the evil of racism, but it continues because "the problem is ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

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

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

The hive mind doesn’t quite fit in the same category of horror as slashers or monsters, but it is its own impressive breed of ...

A philosopher of consciousness argues that there may be no reliable way to determine whether artificial intelligence is truly conscious, making agnosticism the most defensible position. He warns that ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex awareness may ...

For decades, scientists assumed that consciousness—the subjective feeling of being aware—was the crowning achievement of the human brain. Other animals, such as birds, lacking a cerebral cortex, were ...