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

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose consciousness under anesthesia.

Many top professionals and leaders may feel uneasy about AI. Here’s why—and what it reveals about human intelligence.

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

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

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...

What do you get when you mix fire's power, electricity's reach, math's precision, and language's connection? AI—humanity's most profound tool and greatest identity challenge.

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Thousands of near-death experiences show consistent patterns, including out-of-body awareness and feelings of peace. New brain studies reveal organized neural activity during cardiac arrest, matching ...

In July 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein in Caputh, near Berlin, at his summerhouse. The meeting of the two ...

Much like the Xenomorph's life cycle, the "Alien" franchise continues to burgeon with the latest instalment, "Alien: Earth," which takes events to 2120 – two years before Ellen Ripley and the doomed ...