Is our consciousness continuous, or does it occur in discrete chunks? At first glance, this may seem like a strange question. It seems, to us, that our lives are like a movie, where we are perceiving ...

Dec. 29 (UPI) --What happens inside the human brain when consciousness fades away during anesthesia and normal sleep? Scientists have long estimated that the answer to such a question might provide ...

Consciousness is the awareness of existence. While most would agree that we have it, nobody really knows how it arises. And we may never know. That doesn't stop academics from endlessly debating it, ...

IN AN IDEAL world, science would work by making unambiguous predictions based on a theory, and then testing those predictions in ways that leave no wiggle room about which are right and which wrong.

I have a confession. As a physicist and psychiatrist, I find it difficult to engage with conversations about consciousness. My biggest gripe is that the philosophers and cognitive scientists who tend ...

Source: Created by Joel Frohlich using artificial intelligence with Midjourney Imagine you are the victim of an unfortunate accident. A car crash, perhaps, or a fall down the stairs. After some time, ...

The bourgeoisie came to power because it was the class of the developing economy. The proletariat will never come to embody power unless it becomes the class of consciousness. – Guy Debord, Society of ...