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Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

Consciousness is the strangest thing evolution ever pulled off. It’s not a trait like wings or fur, but rather something that exists solely as a product of the mind. For the longest time, we’ve ...

For decades, scientists assumed that consciousness—the subjective feeling of being aware—was the crowning achievement of the human brain. Other animals, such as birds, lacking a cerebral cortex, were ...

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This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Krystal Velorien needed help. A 35-year-old marketing professional living in Ohio who had separated from her husband a ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...