Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

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 ...

In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms ...

Book of the Day: For serious readers willing to grapple with its complexity, it offers not definitive answers but a radical reframing of one of humanity’s oldest questions, how did the mind come to ...

New theory suggests consciousness may arise from a hidden brain wave, challenging long-held beliefs about neurons and awareness.

Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a higher dimension, potentially enabling it to transcend the physical constraints ...

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.

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence ...

The clinical psychologist will publish a pair of parenting books about raising sons and daughters in the modern age ...