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

A peer-reviewed paper published in Frontiers in Psychology proposes that consciousness is not simply a byproduct of brain activity but instead acts as a top-down force that shapes neural processes.

An intriguing hypothesis suggests that human consciousness may respond to the Earth's natural electromagnetic pulse.

Is artificial intelligence secretly conscious? In today’s tech-driven world where AI models are evolving at breakneck speed, this million-dollar question holds a significant relevancy.

A program to which users attribute human characteristics can manipulate them much more easily.” –Andrzej Porębski, MD ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

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”.

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...

It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Michael Pollan's view of consciousness hygiene is criticized for reinforcing alienation and failing to address the underlying ...