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 ...

One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

From the vantage point of the Unified Theory Of Knowledge (UTOK), we can frame the root of many modern philosophical confusions via the "Enlightenment Gap." This refers to the fact that 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 ...

I took a shot and I wrote an article to a scientific journal, and next thing you know, it went through the peer review ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have thought that human consciousness arises from the newest and most sophisticated parts of the brain. But a Cambridge scientist now claims that the fundamental basis of our ...

Human consciousness requires arousal (i.e., wakefulness) and awareness Brain imaging studies over the last decade have produced connectivity maps of the cortical networks that sustain awareness, but ...

In hospitals and trauma units around the world, some patients who come close to death describe extraordinary and vivid experiences. They talk about floating above their own bodies, traveling through ...

A large study puts two leading theories to the test ...

This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence program. The human species has long grappled with the question of what makes ...