New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

EPFL scientists propose a new way of understanding of how the brain processes unconscious information into our consciousness. According to the model, consciousness arises only in time intervals of up ...

A new study records for the first time what happens to brain cells when patients go under. Three patients undergoing treatment for epilepsy provided a unique opportunity for researchers led by Patrick ...

Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is about a group of romantics who lived, loved, and worked around the year 1800 in Jena: men and women who were philosophers, writers, poets, scientists, and ...

If you have ever experienced the majestic sunrise ascent of a hot air balloon, either as a passenger or pilot, you know that moment of liftoff — that feeling of being lighter than air and of gently ...

Scientists propose a new way of understanding of how the brain processes unconscious information into our consciousness. According to the model, consciousness arises only in time intervals of up to ...