"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said. "Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else's." It's a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness—the question of ...

A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to ...

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Some physicists propose that consciousness operates like a hologram. That means our subjective experiences project from information encoded at the quantum level ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until half a billion years ago, life on Earth was slow. The seas were home to single-celled microbes and largely stationary ...

In the 10 minutes before the official start of class, Professor Anne Harrington ’82 somehow managed to cover descriptions of Gilbert Ryle’s classic “category mistake” critique of mind-body dualism, ...

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where does consciousness come from?

What is it like to be a bee? Scientists and non-scientists alike are deeply interested in how widespread consciousness is among nonhuman animals (animals). I wrote about this in my book called Why ...

How consciousness arises in the brain is no clearer after two big theories go head-to-head, but the competition's design could push the field forward. “Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes ...