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Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a ...

Before we can test for AI consciousness, we need to understand how consciousness actually emerges, experts say.

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...

Vince Gilligan's Pluribus displays a deeply unsettling hive mind, but could something like this actually happen to human ...

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 ...

Despite their elegant descriptions of animal behavior, I am not sanguine about the effort of some scholars to extend consciousness to lower animals like insects. One example of such efforts is found ...

The human brain is the most complex information integrator known in the universe. With 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections between them, the brain gives us our rich subjective experiences ...

A small percentage of people with epilepsy experience a state of “oneness” with the world just before their seizures. The ...

Is the “stoned ape theory” of human consciousness valid? This is the hypothesis that consuming psychedelic mushrooms played a major role in the evolution of human consciousness. It was put forth by ...