Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying ...

“I think, therefore I am,” René Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, famously wrote in 1637. His idea was straightforward: even if your senses, the world, or your body ...

Although scientific research about consciousness has enjoyed a boom in the past two decades, one central question remains ...

Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller will propose that thought and consciousness emerge from the ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about artificial (and human) intelligence and consciousness. Also: Kennedy Center ripple ...

A marked feature of western psychology in the twentieth and twenty first century, at least in its North American form, has been its focus on pathology. Oceans of ink have been spilled on topics such ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists accomplished ...

Rats laugh, bees roll balls for fun, turtles dance when they anticipate feeding, and dogs wiggle their tails when they’re excited. Research into animal emotions and experience has been on the rise ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one ...