Is our consciousness continuous, or does it occur in discrete chunks? At first glance, this may seem like a strange question. It seems, to us, that our lives are like a movie, where we are perceiving ...

Who’s to say what consciousness is? Nobody knows. Only a few good wo/men seem to give a shit at any given moment. The poet T.S. Eliot famously noted that humankind cannot stand too much reality and ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --What happens inside the human brain when consciousness fades away during anesthesia and normal sleep? Scientists have long estimated that the answer to such a question might provide ...

Consciousness is the awareness of existence. While most would agree that we have it, nobody really knows how it arises. And we may never know. That doesn't stop academics from endlessly debating it, ...

IN AN IDEAL world, science would work by making unambiguous predictions based on a theory, and then testing those predictions in ways that leave no wiggle room about which are right and which wrong.

Research indicates that pets and other animals have conscious experiences similar to us. Source: Ryan Walton | Unsplash Researchers have found that looking at a picture of a pet can reduce stress (Ein ...

I have a confession. As a physicist and psychiatrist, I find it difficult to engage with conversations about consciousness. My biggest gripe is that the philosophers and cognitive scientists who tend ...