Antonio Damasio has been working to solve the conundrum of consciousness almost since modern neuroscience first began to tackle the problem over three decades ago. In the early 1990s, the Italian ...

Consciousness is your awareness of your thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments. It comes in different stages and levels that can change throughout the day. Conscious awareness lets ...

Consciousness is a complex phenomenon that involves many dimensions. Source: ShooInau/Pixabay Awareness What are you aware of right now? Is there any noise from the street outside? Maybe the smell of ...

In the early days of modern consciousness science, back in the 1990s, researchers focused on identifying empirical correlations between aspects of conscious experience and properties of brain activity ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

This post is in response to Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory By Paul L. Nunez PhD Does consciousness arise exclusively from complex interactions in brain tissue (materialism)? Or does ...

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 ...

Could a machine ever feel pain or pleasure? Could it have its own inner experience of the world? As artificial intelligence ...

In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...