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

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

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

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

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

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

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

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 ...

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

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special ...

A rare form of epilepsy can trigger intense, transcendent states of consciousness just before seizures, offering scientists ...