Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Back at the turn of the penultimate century, the Spanish biologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal used a new staining technique that allowed scientists to see, for the first time, the individual cells of the ...

Understanding the biological basis of consciousness or subjective experience is one of the most exciting and challenging projects of this century. For many reasons, an evolutionary approach to this ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. If you could upload your consciousness to the cloud and live forever as a mind in the metaverse, would you do it? Think carefully before answering. In ...

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2023 International Forum on Consciousness will draw thought leaders and researchers to Madison, WI May 18-19 to explore relationships of human society to the ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...