What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

In a groundbreaking paper, Professor Maria Strømme presents a radical theory suggesting that consciousness is a fundamental ...

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 ...

Scientists are digging into one of evolution’s strangest puzzles — why only certain creatures developed minds that know they ...

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

A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die. Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria ...

But two new papers on the possibility of consciousness in animals and AI suggest new theories for how to test this – one that strikes a middle ground between sensationalism and knee-jerk scepticism ...

The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...

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

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 ...