Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

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

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

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

Consciousness remains one of the most unresolved questions in science. Some researchers argue it emerges naturally from billions of interacting neurons, much like an ant colony forms intelligence from ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...

The original version ofthis storyappeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

A rare form of epilepsy can trigger intense, transcendent states of consciousness just before seizures, offering scientists ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special ...