What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

A new study shows that visual and tactile impressions that are related to our own body are prioritized for reaching conscious awareness. This helps us understand how we develop the feeling that the ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

The coolest and most basic insight that has coalesced in my understanding of human consciousness over the past 18 months is that a fundamental distinction can be drawn between two different streams of ...

Researchers identify a key area in the cortex that appears to be the gate of conscious awareness. During our waking hours, the brain is receiving a near-constant influx of sensory signals of various ...