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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...