An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: “Can’t we all just get along?” They analyzed how five major theories of ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

A baffling new theory to explain human consciousness has suggested it comes from hidden dimensions and is not just brain activity. A physicist claimed that we plug in to these invisible planes of the ...

A recent OpEd piece reminded me how muddled the concept of human consciousness can be*. It also reminded me that we need an approach that blends the best of both psychology and philosophy. Careful ...

In addition to the basic capacity for sense perception, the Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK) 1 identifies three primary domains of human consciousness. The first is the experiential or primate self, ...

As AI rapidly advances and ethical debates intensify, scientists contend that understanding consciousness has become more urgent than ever. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance ...

The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

While the rise of LLMs and AI has convinced some people that consciousness isn’t something that can be created with computers ...

UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness Professor Banu Bargu, an acclaimed scholar of political theory and resistance, has ...