Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings ...

DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine)—the mysterious psychedelic molecule that occurs naturally in plants, animals, and possibly the ...

The subjective privacy of consciousness is insufficient to explain how we coordinate action. We succeed at ...

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Cognition lacks a standard definition. A clearer understanding of it and its evolution in animals is key to unlocking the ...

Being conscious is more than being not unconscious or not subconscious. Having awareness, consciousness, and realizations are the same thing. So, ‘Consciousness is being aware of …’ is a tautology, ...

A groundbreaking study challenges Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am,” suggesting consciousness begins with bodily feelings, reshaping how we define awareness.

Assessing consciousness becomes more challenging the further researchers move away from the human mind. One issue is that non-human animals can’t communicate their subjective experiences.

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in the brain? That is ...

A grand experiment pitted two rival theories of consciousness against each other. Critics have condemned one of the two theories as pseudoscience, and have questioned whether the new study can ...