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

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

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the origins of thought has long pitted two schools against each other. On ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose consciousness under anesthesia.

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

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the same neural circuitry that produces conscious memory of the past not only ...

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

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever. Researchers writing in Frontiers in Science warn that advances ...

“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...