Consciousness is perhaps one of the most challenging psychological topics of our time. Consciousness is also one of the most beautiful human possibilities: the capacity for subjective experience. One ...

Ever wonder what makes you, well, you? Great minds have long pondered the question of how we actually perceive, recognize, and feel our “self.” Understanding human consciousness has been the Holy ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

“Out of meat, how do you get thought? That’s the grandest question.” So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the producer and host of the acclaimed PBS program, Closer to ...

Behind the gleam of blinking screens, scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science staged one of the most intriguing confrontations in science. The goal was to uncover what makes us ...

Here’s something you don’t hear every day: two theories of consciousness are about to face off in the scientific fight of the century. Backed by top neuroscientist theorists of today, including ...

The birth of human consciousness may have truly been magic. Scientists have claimed that the consumption of the fungi psilocybin, also known as 'magic mushrooms,' influenced pre-human hominids' brains ...

I am saddened to inform you of the death of Gary Lease, professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Department and former dean of the Humanities Division. Professor Lease died on Friday ...

World’s Fastest Electron Microscope, Quantum Consciousness and the Origin of Life Host Erika Hamden explores quantum mysteries. We visit a University of Arizona lab where the world’s fastest electron ...