In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would, after all, be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious — meaning ...

It all starts with, “Nothing I see means anything. [1]” Wait, what? What does that even mean? What do you mean by “nothing I see means anything?” Well, first, we generally do not see — at least not ...

As more people use AI assistants and chatbots for everyday tasks, a curious phenomenon is emerging: a growing number of users ...

A single psychedelic experience increased a range of non-physicalist beliefs, such as consciousness, meaning and purpose, researchers reported in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. “Guardrails against ...

Babies blink, cry, and yawn—and a few weeks into their lives, they might smile. But do these movements mean that newborns have conscious experiences of perceiving the world around them? Or are these ...