The quantum theory of consciousness long seemed like a radical idea, but growing evidence is making some neuroscientists take ...

Consciousness may not come from intelligence at all—but from a struggle machines will never know.

A research team is using ultrasound to map the deep-brain circuits that may give rise to conscious experience.

Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head ...

The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind blowing. Who would have thought we'd be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special ...

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...