Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

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, ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

I recently attended a panel discussion titled Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines. At one point during the evening, a philosophy professor from Yale said that if a machine ever became ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding consciousness, with the unveiling of the world’s first complete, high-resolution brain map of the baby fruit fly. It’s the most complex and intricate ...