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

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

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

One of the strangest theories currently being tossed around is the notion that we live in a conscious universe. The typical label for this hypothesis is panpsychism, an ancient belief that there is ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

The idea suggests that everything we know—space, time, even the human brain—emerges from a universal field of awareness, not the other way around. The theory was recently presented by Maria Strømme, ...

Everything we experience is linked to our consciousness. Despite this familiarity, consciousness remains a mystery. Source: Caleb Frith/Unsplash How do you feel right now? Happy? Sad? Excited? Do you ...

The history of science — in particular the physical sciences, like physics and astronomy — can be told as the incremental realization that there is large-scale coherence in the universe. By ...