This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...

Michael Pollan explores theories of consciousness in animals, plants and machines, examining the “hard problem” of subjective experience in his new book “A World Appears”.

On the surface, the concept of consciousness can seem pretty straightforward. It refers to what people are mentally aware of, right? Turns out it is more complicated than that. John Horgan recently ...

Under the influence of psychedelics, many report that plants seem to be alive. Is it wrong to assume we’re the only sentient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the mid-1990s, cognitive scientist David Chalmers pondered what he referred to as the “hard problem of consciousness,” which (to put it simply) ...

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For most scientists, consciousness and the brain are inextricably linked—and for good reason. The brain is the synaptic center where our biological selves make sense of the world around us. But this ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...