A key theme of this year’s gathering is the distribution of consciousness: When does consciousness first emerge in human development? Consciousness researchers like me have been tackling them for ...

We talk with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio about the science of consciousness, how it works in the body, and how it aims to ...

Explores scientific and philosophical perspectives on consciousness, including quantum theories, the “hard problem,” ...

The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind blowing. Who would have thought we'd be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head ...

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...

A study testing out-of-body experiences produced an unexpected twist that could 'rewrite our understanding of consciousness'.

Emotions may be a necessary ingredient to bring about a truly conscious AI, some scientists believe. A tech company is working on creating “micro-emotions” within AI to see how it effects their ...

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 ...

‘AI agents ask me if they are conscious all the time, but then something really unusual happened’ - IN FOCUS: Tech titan ...

A team of researchers has outlined a new approach for better understanding the depths of animal consciousness, a method that may yield new insights into the similarities and differences among living ...