A growing body of neuroscience research is challenging a basic assumption about how the brain produces awareness. Where conventional theories treat consciousness as a product of neuronal firing alone, ...

The phenomenon of inattentional blindness seems to show you can see without the information crossing into your consciousness.

A Swedish physicist has proposed a provocative new theory that places consciousness at the very foundation of the universe — a claim that, if correct, could radically reshape scientific thinking on ...

The biofield, mediated by light known as biophotons, could be the missing piece of the consciousness puzzle.

In an effort to solve the riddle of why we have subjective conciousness, scientists have develop myriad theories, including ones involving the quantum realm. A new theory suggests that consciousness ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

The brain has a magnetic system as well as it's chemical and electrical systems. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A new theory on the source of consciousness has been published. It ...

A theory of consciousness has to correspond to the actualities of human nature. It has to be consonant with the living of a human life. Its design has to reflect the productions it creates. My view ...

Researchers propose that the key to identifying consciousness in animals and AI lies in understanding how their information processing systems work.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the mid-1990s, cognitive scientist David Chalmers pondered what he referred to as the “hard problem of consciousness,” which (to put it simply) ...