Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

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

It happens as often as 16% of our conscious lives: the mind simply goes blank. There is nothing inside, no verbal thinking, ...

Yes: Consciousness is totally dependent on the brain and comes out from it. Dynamics of the brain create awareness. The brain is the conscious mind. No: Mind and body are distinctly different; ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

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

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

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

Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in ...

Some recent studies proposed that consciousness emerges early in development, possibly during the third trimester of ...