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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...