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

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

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

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

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a higher dimension, potentially enabling it to transcend the physical constraints ...

The possibility of uploading human consciousness into a computer or machine, once a staple of science fiction, has entered serious scientific discourse. We’ll delve into the intricacies of human ...

Transcranial focused ultrasound could enable research into consciousness, a research team has suggested, providing a roadmap ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's ...

If you don’t know anything about neuroscience, that’s okay — one researcher’s striking theory might send us all back to the start anyway. Consciousness is typically defined as immediate awareness of ...