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

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

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

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

This map of the human brain highlights areas in the prefrontal cortex (green) and the visual cortex (blue) that are thought to be associated with consciousness. The graphs track readings of ...

Source: Consciousness Awakening by Ralph Buckley/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality" -Carl Sagan It appears that we are ...