Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong This article is part of a special package on “Impossible ...

We talk with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio about the science of consciousness, how it works in the body, and how it aims to ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said. "Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else's." It's a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness—the question of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even though science has studied a great many things about humanity and how we came to be, there are certain things we have a tough time ...

Scientists still do not understand why we have subjective experiences or awareness. This is known as the “hard problem” of consciousness. One company is testing a theory of consciousness using a robot ...

This series delves into research by renowned medical doctors to explore profound questions about consciousness, existence, and what may lie beyond. Dr. Eben Alexander was at the height of his career ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an emerging research tool ...

In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain injury and showed no sign of awareness. But when researchers scanning her ...

Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

In a recent experiment on Claude Sonnet 4.5, a large language model (LLM) from Anthropic, researchers asked it to count to five and, at the same time, “introspect deeply”. The artificial-intelligence ...