There is mounting evidence that even surprisingly simple animals, like invertebrates, have a level of consciousness - but not ...

Now, with AI systems behaving in strikingly conscious-looking ways, it is more important than ever to get a handle on who and what is capable of experiencing life on a conscious level.

If consciousness exists at the cellular level, it could mean our very biology is shaped not just by physical processes but by some deeper self-directed force.

A cornucopia of consciousness theories. There's only one way we can know: by empirically identifying how consciousness works in organic lifeforms and developing a method by which we can ...

But when you have a heightened state of consciousness, it’s because you’re dealing with quantum-level consciousness that is capable of being in all places at the same time, he explains.

The notion that quantum physics must be the underlying mechanism for consciousness first emerged in the 1990s, when Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose, PhD, and anesthesiologist Stuart ...

lastly, the conscious level considers how the brain dissociates from the outside world and manipulates learned patterns (via memory) no longer accessible to perception.

When I brought up this emptiness to Robert Long, a philosopher at the Center for A.I. Safety who led work on the report, he said, “That feeling is kind of a thing that happens whenever you try ...

Also known as monitored anesthesia care or conscious sedation, MAC anesthesia is a type of sedation where you remain aware of your surroundings and stay calm. The anesthetist administers it ...