It's time to stop bickering, accept what science tells us, acknowledge the widespread occurrence of intentional behavioral flexibility, and pay attention to why it has evolved.

If artificial consciousness never emerges, safeguards will look cautious but harmless. If it does, safeguards may be the ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

After changing how we eat and how we trip, the author returns to his garden — and the page — to examine the mystery of ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...

The science writer delves into the vast subject of consciousness in his new book A World Appears – and draws some surprising conclusions, finds Grace Wade ...

In his new book A World Appears, the journalist explores the mysteries of the human brain — and whether computers could ever ...

A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die. Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria ...

Consciousness is something that is very difficult to study. While all of us know that we are conscious, understanding exactly what it is and how it works is difficult. In many ways, the concept of ...

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...