Michael Pollan's new book revisits the consciousness debate through science, AI and meditation. It argues that spiritual ...

Multiple lines of evidence point to the fact that, ultimately, we are not mere meat machines. We are free to make choices in ...

A new paper argues that scientists may need a radically new approach to studying consciousness, including in animals and AI.

Commonly cited examples include things like people singing “Happy Birthday” to you, carrying a lunch tray, crossing the ...

But they are persistent, and I’ve been thinking about why. The common denominator seems to be that these new believers in a ...

We install water features so we can listen to cascading fountains inside our homes. And if we don’t have the real thing, we ...

What if consciousness is central to reality, quantum mechanics, and the future alignment of artificial general intelligence?

There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might ...

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement ...

Consciousness has long been one of science’s most stubborn mysteries. We can map the brain in exquisite detail, decode neural circuits, and even build machines that rival human abilities in language ...