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 ...

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 ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an emerging research tool ...

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Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

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

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Key Takeaways Dualism holds that the mind and body are separate, with mental experiences not fully explained by physical ...

Although researchers can monitor brain activity associated with perception, pain, and awareness, it remains unclear which ...

Could artificial intelligence (AI) become conscious? What used to be a philosophical “thought experiment” is now a real-world conundrum. AI’s explosive development, especially the Large Language ...

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 ...

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...