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

Understanding emotions may be fundamental to understanding subjective experience. Unlike other forms of information ...

Conventional thinking about consciousness—called the standard model of consciousness—focuses ... the very first cells that ...

For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: What is the physical basis of ...

A new study suggests that consciousness may be rooted in quantum processes, as researchers found that a drug binding to ...

Another limitation of IIT is that it does not address what David Chalmers calls the “hard problem of consciousness” 6. IIT is potentially useful for its ability to offer an objective, mathematical ...

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness is the first of its kind in the field, and its appearance marks a unique time in the history of intellectual inquiry on the topic. After decades during which ...

So it helps to think of an electrical circuit a bit like the central heating system in a house. We call this comparison a model. The cell or battery is like the boiler and the pump, pushing hot ...

New research on anesthesia by Wellesley College professor Mike Wiest and a team of undergraduate students has yielded important results about the physical basis of consciousness in the brain.

Gravity is no longer a mystery to physicists—at least when it comes to large distances. Thanks to science, we can calculate ...