This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

What does it mean for God not only to take on flesh but to take on a very specific and highly individualized human ...

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 ...

A radical new theory from Professor Maria Strømme suggests that consciousness may not originate in the brain but instead exist as a universal field, with individual minds acting like temporary waves ...

If you don’t know anything about neuroscience, that’s okay — one researcher’s striking theory might send us all back to the start anyway. Consciousness is typically defined as immediate awareness of ...

The major characteristics of consciousness are alertness and being oriented to place and time. Alertness means that you’re able to respond appropriately to the people and things around you. Being ...