David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...

If artificial consciousness never emerges, safeguards will look cautious but harmless. If it does, safeguards may be the ...

Scientists, Michael Pollan acknowledges, have subsequently discovered a lot about consciousness: the sentience of plants and animals, the origin and nature of feelings, ways in which we think, why ...

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

Why Information, Not Matter, May Be the True Foundation of Reality - Rethinking Reality Through Physics, Information, ...

There’s a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates?

The journalist and polymath probes the mysteries of the mind in this unsettling yet life-affirming investigation ...

In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

People may be conscious for several hours after they have died, a study has claimed. Evidence has been found that ...

American researchers reviewed near-death experiences and found consciousness may continue briefly after the heart stops, suggesting death unfolds as a gradual process.

A recent attempt to catalog all theories of consciousness identified 350 distinct approaches (Kuhn, 2024). A recent contest for the best essay in consciousness studies produced 3,000 diverse ...