Consciousness is often defined as having subjective ... experience negative states like pain and suffering. You can ask basic questions like: Do they nurse their own wounds? Do they respond ...

This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality. Federico Faggin’s book Irreducible confirms this.

On Friday, March 7, just ahead of the Jewish Sabbath, a South Carolina firing squad will shoot to death my longtime pen pal and friend Brad Sigmon. This will mark the first American firing squad ...

A team from Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian discovered signs of hidden consciousness can be detected using electroencephalography (EEG) scans by running tests at a more unusual time: at ...

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may possess a degree of consciousness that's normally hidden from their ...

Universal basic income was once thought politically impossible. Then came Andrew Yang and COVID-19. Basic income programs are now gaining traction, offering payments to struggling families.

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 ...