Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

The only reason humans know about the existence of consciousness — the phenomenon of having subjective feelings and experiences — is because we have feelings and experiences. But despite centuries of ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

For most of human history, consciousness has been something that scientists have talked around. It hasn’t really been something they could test. That is, until now. Researchers have begun to treat ...

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...

The original version ofthis storyappeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

Join award-winning science journalist Michael Pollan to explore the mystery of consciousness, with a discussion of the mind w ...

Academic leaders from around the world penned an open letter calling on artificial intelligence developers to learn more about consciousness as artificial intelligence (AI) systems advance rapidly, ...