Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness ...

Consciousness is a complex phenomenon that involves many dimensions. Source: ShooInau/Pixabay Awareness What are you aware of right now? Is there any noise from the street outside? Maybe the smell of ...

The “problem of other minds”—knowing that someone else has a mind like yours, and in the case of consciousness, subjective experiences similar to yours—is not too much of a problem when we are ...

A progressive moral vision is deeply connected to the exercise of conscience. But the interface between conscience and policymaking is poorly defined, making the concept of conscience susceptible to ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

Philip Goff has received funding from the Templeton Foundation. The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe ...

Cardiff University and University College London provide funding as founding partners of The Conversation UK. As the very word used to describe it has been “worn smooth by a million tongues”, ...