For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...

In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

Study Shows Your Eyes See, But Your Brain Doesn’t Process During Mental Absences In A Nutshell Consciousness may actually pause while you’re awake. The brain patterns during mind blanking resemble ...

In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

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 ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is far from clear how to ...

For centuries, philosophers have grappled with the mystery of consciousness: the unique inner world that seems fundamental to human existence. Despite the long-standing challenge of finding a ...

Do trees have minds? A friend posed this question during one of the high school afternoons we habitually spent—no doubt with too much time on our hands—engaging in amateur philosophical banter. It ...