Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

Investigating whether AI is conscious could shed light on some of the most fundamental aspects of consciousness itself.

Consciousness is perhaps one of the most challenging psychological topics of our time. Consciousness is also one of the most beautiful human possibilities: the capacity for subjective experience. One ...

A research team is using ultrasound to map the deep-brain circuits that may give rise to conscious experience.

“Out of meat, how do you get thought? That’s the grandest question.” So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the producer and host of the acclaimed PBS program, Closer to ...

Turner Prize-nominated artist Isaac Julien joins the BBC to talk about his film work Lessons of the Hour – which is screening from this weekend until next April at Perth Museum, on the site where the ...

Book of the Day: Few books in modern psychology have provoked as much fascination and controversy as The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. First ...

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes might be the most interesting book that I ever read. Jaynes was an American psychologist, and this book was ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one common pattern for handling information. Each region of the cortex contains ...

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