For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have searched for clues throughout the brain, hoping to identify the signals ...

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a ...

Human beings tend to be anthropocentric. That is, we often see ourselves as evolution’s magnum opus despite the fact that, as ...

Is AI reshaping human consciousness? Explore the rise of quantum consciousness theory, cognitive outsourcing, and why so many ...

In the era of large language models and talks of artificial general intelligence, scientists are understandably reinvigorated to understand the inner workings of human consciousness— and there are a ...

What is the best way to map human consciousness? I was recently reading Anil Seth’s excellent book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, and I was pleased by the frame he offered. Here, I show ...

In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts ...

A recent OpEd piece reminded me how muddled the concept of human consciousness can be*. It also reminded me that we need an approach that blends the best of both psychology and philosophy. Careful ...

Since he was a kid Hal Blumenfeld has wondered about the nature of human consciousness. “It’s what makes us human and makes life worthwhile,” said Blumenfeld, now the Mark Loughridge and Michele ...

Two philosophical thought experiments lead us right into a flurry of questions surrounding the human mind. You decide where you stand. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered ...

My only complaint—and it’s a small one—about Charles Foster’s Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness is the subtitle. Because of it, when I began reading, I assumed that, ...

Evolution often examines animals on an individualistic level, but more modern ideas explore how evolution can impact genetics and cultures and societies. A new paper from two U.K. neuropsychologists ...