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

Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

Academic leaders from around the world penned an open letter calling on artificial intelligence developers to learn more about consciousness as artificial intelligence (AI) systems advance rapidly, ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever ...

In an excerpt from his new book, Numenta and Palm cofounder Jeff Hawkins says that consciousness isn’t beyond understanding. Nor is replicating it unimaginable. I recently attended a panel discussion ...

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

In a controlled study, researchers used DMT and watched adults' brain activity change as their usual "sense of self" slipped ...

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 ...

Throughout history, attempts by mere mortals to plumb the inner recesses of the soul have been seen as hubristic. Shakespeare had Hamlet express this powerfully when he rages against those who “would ...

There is a new review of books in Nature, Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it, where the author wrote, “I consider the indicators as signifying the ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

There’s an almost fretful anxiety in the voices and writings of materialists when they discuss consciousness. Inevitably, they become frustrated and angered when theists point out science’s inability ...