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

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

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

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...

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

Consciousness remains one of the most unresolved questions in science. Some researchers argue it emerges naturally from billions of interacting neurons, much like an ant colony forms intelligence from ...

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

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

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

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