The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind blowing. Who would have thought we'd be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

Have you ever stopped to think about what your brain is actually doing right now? For decades, standard science has told us a ...

Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head ...

"Nothing in science explains how three pounds of matter... can love, hate, dream, imagine, fear or hope for its future." The ...

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special ...

Some researchers believe consciousness is a byproduct of the constantly firing web of neurons in our heads. However, others believe something more theoretical must be involved to explain our complex ...

Consciousness feels obvious until you try to explain it—dive into the mystery of the human mind, awareness, and what actually makes you, you.

Emotions may be a necessary ingredient to bring about a truly conscious AI, some scientists believe. A tech company is working on creating “micro-emotions” within AI to see how it effects their ...

A team of researchers has outlined a new approach for better understanding the depths of animal consciousness, a method that may yield new insights into the similarities and differences among living ...