For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from ...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating ...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research contends that developing scientific tests ...

As AI and brain technology advance, scientists warn understanding of consciousness and awareness is lagging behind, raising ...

Higher states of consciousness are not hallucinations but authentic transformational experiences, mostly triggered by turmoil ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first clear evidence that visual awareness acts as a "conductor" that refines the ...

Neuroscientists studying the eye’s blind spot have found that brain cells in the primary visual cortex, or V1, fire even when ...

Most of these paragraphs, you may read out of order. This subject tends to make speakers sound smart. Yet, my exposé is down-to-earth or simple. Theologians, physicists, and philosophers will hate it.

"Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber: Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound." —William ...