Life-forms made of stuff we couldn’t imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

Panpsychism, the philosophical position that consciousness is a fundamental and widespread feature of the physical world, has moved from the margins of academic debate into serious scientific ...

"The universe may contain minds stranger than we can imagine." The post There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims appeared first on Futurism.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from ...

Everything we experience is linked to our consciousness. Despite this familiarity, consciousness remains a mystery. Source: Caleb Frith | Unsplash How do you feel right now? Happy? Sad? Excited? Do ...

The spectrum of alien appearances across popular culture is vast, limited only by human imagination. From the sharp, angular features of Captain Spock to the dinosaur-like neck and big, expressive ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents' brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

God is everything, and everything is God. That is, according to pantheism, an umbrella term for a set of beliefs that suggest God did not create the universe—but that God is the universe. For hundreds ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In Copernicus' time, this proposition was extremely scandalous, as it pointed to the idea that Earth is not necessarily special—our planet is just ...