This breathtaking clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

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 ...

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The origin of consciousness has teased the minds of philosophers and scientists for centuries. In the last decade, neuroscientists have begun to piece together its neural underpinnings—that is, how ...

I'm a co-director with Liad Mudrik of CIFAR's "Brain, Mind, and Consciousness" program. “Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody ...

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 ...