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

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

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

A new study shows that visual and tactile impressions that are related to our own body are prioritized for reaching conscious awareness. This helps us understand how we develop the feeling that the ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...

Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would, after all, be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious — meaning ...

“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is far from clear how to ...

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

Lately I seem to be very conscious about my body, especially with other people going to the gym multiple times a week. I guess what I'm saying is, how should I cope with all my friends who are gym ...