Does anesthesia put you to sleep? A long review of what really happens in anesthesia, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, points out something cognitive scientists have known ...

It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are ...

Scott Oldford, founder of The Oldford Company, is an Advisor & Investor with 15 years of experience helping entrepreneurs scale businesses. When it comes to navigating the entrepreneurial ...

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a widely discussed—and, by some, strongly promoted —“mathematical theory of consciousness” developed over the past 10-20 years or so, mainly by neuroscientist ...

Consciousness, at its basic level, is an individual’s self-awareness, comprising both external and internal phenomena; it may constitute any kind of cognition, experience, feeling, or perception.