One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

This post was co-authored with Ralph Weir, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

In an effort to solve the riddle of why we have subjective conciousness, scientists have develop myriad theories, including ones involving the quantum realm. A new theory suggests that consciousness ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...

Recent research has found that the thalamus may act like a “relay station” for consciousness by modulating cortical activity in the brain. Researchers found “thalamocortical loops,” where information ...

WHAT is consciousness? This is arguably the biggest remaining mystery of the human brain. No wonder it is known as “the hard problem”. We can’t even agree whether consciousness is one thing or a ...

A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die. Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria ...

Could artificial intelligence (AI) become conscious? What used to be a philosophical “thought experiment” is now a real-world conundrum. AI’s explosive development, especially the Large Language ...

Is consciousness a product of the brain, or could it be something more fundamental? This is one of the central questions addressed by Christof Koch, one of the most influential contemporary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How can we define consciousness? Even that starting point proves to be a sticky wicket. For the purposes of this review, let’s go ...