Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement ...

Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

Life-forms made of stuff we couldn’t imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hinging on the ideas of Copernicus, who concluded that Earth is not as unique as we think it is, two philosophers explored what ...