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 ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

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

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.

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

i) neutral between the view that consciousness is (to simplify) identical to parts of your brain and what goes on inside of ...

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. Your consciousness is what it's like to be you. It's your experiences of color ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

People who experience it say they feel closer to God, and even to the fabric of the universe itself.