A look at some of the differences between states of consciousness and brain death: Brain death: These patients are no longer alive. There has been an irreversible cessation of all activity in both ...

Mind-blowing new research shows that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something entirely ...

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes that the link between brain and body is the key to understanding consciousness. In his latest book, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious, he explains ...

Stage 1 sleep demonstrates that states of consciousness not only fluidly run into each other, but often are not recognized. Many people have microsleeps of 3-30 seconds, especially when driving ...

Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka, The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019), pp. 153-4; Bronfman ZZ, Ginsburg S, Jablonka E.

Ever since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has been the grand unifying theory of biology. Yet one of our most important biological traits, consciousness, is ...