Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

EPFL scientists propose a new way of understanding of how the brain processes unconscious information into our consciousness. According to the model, consciousness arises only in time intervals of up ...

A new study records for the first time what happens to brain cells when patients go under. Three patients undergoing treatment for epilepsy provided a unique opportunity for researchers led by Patrick ...

As individuals, we feel that we know what consciousness is because we experience it daily. It’s that intimate sense of personal awareness we carry around with us, and the accompanying feeling of ...

If you have ever experienced the majestic sunrise ascent of a hot air balloon, either as a passenger or pilot, you know that moment of liftoff — that feeling of being lighter than air and of gently ...

Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is about a group of romantics who lived, loved, and worked around the year 1800 in Jena: men and women who were philosophers, writers, poets, scientists, and ...