Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

It asks whether we are better or worse for removing certain parts of our own consciousness, and it explores that idea through ...

Researchers have found that some cells form new multicellular structures with functions that defy their original biological ...

Compartmentalizing is like being on different channels of experience and switching from one to the other. Compartmentalizing ...

What happens when you don’t eat? You become faint. What happens if you continue without food? You will pass out. And if you still don’t eat, your soul will leave your body and you will die. Eating ...

The brain is an amazing organ with growth and reparative capacity. It controls our cognitive, motor, sensory, emotional, and ...

Recent findings suggest that memories are stored in the body, not just the brain. Does that mean our "self" is too?

The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.

If computers can create consciousness, then minds cannot be identical to brains ... Putnam argued for machine functionalism, suggesting that mental states are a function of a computational machine, ...

Only 29% of patients with neither sleep spindles nor cognitive motor dissociation showed signs of consciousness by the time they were discharged and just 7% regained neurological function a year ...

Just over 40 percent of unresponsive patients with both well-formed sleep spindles and CMD recovered consciousness before leaving hospital, with more than three-quarters regaining neurological ...