Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

The science writer delves into the vast subject of consciousness in his new book A World Appears – and draws some surprising conclusions, finds Grace Wade ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

"I'm writing because your work addresses questions I actually face, not just as an academic matter." The post Philosopher ...

A coherent explanation of consciousness eludes modern science. In “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan dives headfirst into the mystery. Why does it feel like something to be you ...

Like most neuroscientists my professional life has been focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—exploring experimental relationships between brain and mind activity, the so-called consciousness ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

A dancing humanoid robot gyrates to music at a fair in Beijing. - © AFP Pedro PARDO/File A dancing humanoid robot gyrates to music at a fair in Beijing. - © AFP ...

A recent study suggests that memories aren’t just stored in the brain, raising important questions about cognition.

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. Your consciousness is what it's like to be you. It's your experiences of color ...

This world of consciousness beyond the body,” he wrote, “is the true new frontier, not just of science but of humankind ...