The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind blowing. Who would have thought we'd be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

Earlier this year, a bonobo named Kanzi (now deceased) was shown to interact with imaginary grapes and juice, suggesting a ...

Consciousness is your awareness of your thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments. It comes in different stages and levels that can change throughout the day. Conscious awareness lets ...

A molecular geneticist at the University of Surrey says the human "mind" is electromagnetic. Mind-body dualism is one of philosophy's oldest questions, boosted this time by science. Is the answer as ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

Stepping out of the assumption of being humanWe usually assume that we are "human." There are certainly many phenomena ...

Is our consciousness continuous, or does it occur in discrete chunks? At first glance, this may seem like a strange question. It seems, to us, that our lives are like a movie, where we are perceiving ...

There are reasons to assume that not only humans but also some non-human species of animal have conscious perception. Which species have consciousness and how the subjective experience of various ...

The quantum theory of consciousness long seemed like a radical idea, but growing evidence is making some neuroscientists take a second look.