Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying ...
The coolest and most basic insight that has coalesced in my understanding of human consciousness over the past 18 months is that a fundamental distinction can be drawn between two different streams of ...
Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a ...
Washington D.C.: Human consciousness is a topic philosophers have long struggled to define. Now, a team of researchers led by neurologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has ...
Source: Sam McGuire Photography, Los Angeles (used with permission). Dreams are among the most vivid and unique conscious experiences. Their narrative power is well documented throughout history, from ...
Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...
This article originally appeared on Massive. If you cut off your thumb, you would (likely) still be conscious. If you cut off a thumb-sized part of your brainstem, however, you would almost certainly ...