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 ...

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

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

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. Your consciousness is what it's like to be you. It's your experiences of color ...

i) neutral between the view that consciousness is (to simplify) identical to parts of your brain and what goes on inside of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in ...

Consciousness remains one of the most unresolved questions in science. Some researchers argue it emerges naturally from ...

People who experience it say they feel closer to God, and even to the fabric of the universe itself.

Forensic audit using advanced AI reveals the objective logic of the soul, offering a user manual for consciousness ...