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

Can we be conscious without language? Does language influence our conscious experience? These questions, which are central to understanding the human mind, have been explored by researchers at the ...

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

Levels and states of awareness ...

Consciousness studies is too much like the blind men with the elephant. Here's an explanation for the blind spot and how we can work around it.

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

Researchers believe other species could help explain the mysterious origins of our consciousness. One new paper argues that consciousness evolved in distinct waves from environmental pressures, like a ...

This map of the human brain highlights areas in the prefrontal cortex (green) and the visual cortex (blue) that are thought to be associated with consciousness. The graphs track readings of ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

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Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...