Consciousness may be millions of years old, fueled by primal brain circuits rather than the human cortex alone.

I want to explore the notion that one can be awake without being conscious. Normally, most of us think that to be awake is also to be conscious. That is a natural thought. We wake up in the morning ...

This informational approach to consciousness is a welcome and necessary development, but more research needs to be done in this area. If the integrated information approach is correct, then there must ...

A recent scientific revelation has identified a ‘third state’ that exists in the liminal space between life and death, a state that some experts argue may imply a level of consciousness within our ...