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

Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave of research is converging on a more grounded answer, suggesting that ...

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Humans might be the only known beings aware of themselves, others, and the world around them. They have unique emotions and feelings that others cannot fully understand from the outside. For example, ...

Renzo Lanfranco receives funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and the Strategic Research Area Neuroscience (StratNeuro). Most of us go through the day without thinking much ...

The MIT professor Marvin Minsky rightly characterized consciousness as a “suitcase word.” By this he meant that consciousness packs many different meanings within it. This blog unpacks the term, ...

If you have ever seen a Hindu god in a temple or painting, one question naturally arises. Why so many arms? Four, eight, ten, sometimes more. To the modern mind, this may seem mythical. In Hindu ...