Experts believe entangling a brain with a quantum computer could finally reveal where consciousness comes from.

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

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?

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

The Global Consciousness Project EGG experiments at Princeton set out to measure consciousness using sophisticated equipment worldwide to human reactions to major newsmaking events even moments even ...

Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

People also receive the constant messages in varying degrees depending on their openness to its signals. Those who have read the book "The Secret Life of Plants" learned of Cleve Backster's ...