Could a machine ever feel pain or pleasure? Could it have its own inner experience of the world? As artificial intelligence ...

In our last blog post, CBT and Consciousness: An Application, we explained how consciousness, being the decisive factor, is the ultimate factor behind perception. We explained that both the why of ...

Consciousness is usually defined by neuroscientists as the ability to have subjective experience, such as the experience of tasting an apple or of seeing the redness of its skin. The leading theories ...

Consciousness is your awareness of your thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments. It comes in different stages and levels that can change throughout the day. Conscious awareness lets ...

Consciousness should be a deeply spooky thing. Or, rather, the fact that we routinely lose consciousness should be a deeply spooky thing. Here, at some murky threshold that we never quite see until we ...

Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness – ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...