Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a dimension outside of our everyday perception, according to the controversial ...

“Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.

Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...

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 ...

There is a new review of books in Nature, Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it, where the author wrote, “I consider the indicators as signifying the ...

In an excerpt from his new book, Numenta and Palm cofounder Jeff Hawkins says that consciousness isn’t beyond understanding. Nor is replicating it unimaginable. I recently attended a panel discussion ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

In a controlled study, researchers used DMT and watched adults' brain activity change as their usual "sense of self" slipped ...

In the ongoing discussions about artificial intelligence, one of the most provocative questions has been whether large language models might one day achieve consciousness. However, perhaps the more ...