The science writer delves into the vast subject of consciousness in his new book A World Appears – and draws some surprising conclusions, finds Grace Wade ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...

Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic circles, this is formally known as “the hard problem of consciousness.” David ...

Consciousness remains unexplained despite advances in neuroscience Quantum theories propose that subatomic processes may influence awareness No single theory has yet unified brain activity with ...

Archimedes claimed he could move the Earth if only he could get a purchase on it from a point in space; we are in the same predicament when it comes to consciousness: we cannot think outside the box, ...

One of the most enduring human mysteries is why we possess sentient awareness, a paradox known to science as the “hard problem of consciousness.” At the physiological level, we have a good ...

Michael Pollan, the American journalist whose edict “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” became an international fridge magnet, is back with a warning about the limits of artificial intelligence – ...