How consciousness arises in the brain is no clearer after two big theories go head-to-head, but the competition's design could push the field forward. “Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter develop from it.

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

Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

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 ...

This blog was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke*. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the executive producer of the excellent series on life, cosmos, and consciousness called Closer to Truth, recently ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Some physicists propose that consciousness operates like a hologram. That means our subjective experiences project from information encoded at the quantum level ...

Humans know they exist, but how does "knowing" work? Despite all that's been learned about brain function and the bodily processes it governs, we still don't understand where the subjective ...

For the average person, any explanation about philosophers and physicists warring over the nature of consciousness — no matter how colorfully described — would probably sound like an embarrassingly ...