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

Although researchers can monitor brain activity associated with perception, pain, and awareness, it remains unclear which ...

Learn how a new research roadmap could turn debates about consciousness into testable experiments.

Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a higher dimension, potentially enabling it to transcend the physical constraints ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

The MIT professor Marvin Minsky rightly characterized consciousness as a “suitcase word.” By this he meant that consciousness packs many different meanings within it. This blog unpacks the term, ...

A marked feature of western psychology in the twentieth and twenty first century, at least in its North American form, has been its focus on pathology. Oceans of ink have been spilled on topics such ...