Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite institutions have his back as he explores DMT “entities,” near-death experiences ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness.

New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

The only reason humans know about the existence of consciousness — the phenomenon of having subjective feelings and experiences — is because we have feelings and experiences. But despite centuries of ...

For most of human history, consciousness has been something that scientists have talked around. It hasn’t really been ...

In this video, we explore various aspects of artificial intelligence and consciousness, discussing: - AI in science fiction ...

Researcher says science can't answer whether AI could be conscious. His recommendation: don't build AI that might be able to ...

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...

In 2007 I published a book called Animals Matter and at about the same time Erin Williams and Margo Demello published a book called Why Animals Matter. And just this month another book called Why ...