Everything we experience is linked to our consciousness. Despite this familiarity, consciousness remains a mystery. Source: Caleb Frith | Unsplash How do you feel right now? Happy? Sad? Excited? Do ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

One of the strangest theories currently being tossed around is the notion that we live in a conscious universe. The typical label for this hypothesis is panpsychism, an ancient belief that there is ...

Visitors to ARTECHOUSE take in an audio-visual installation by the fractal artist Julius Horsthuis. In "Notes on Complexity," Neil Theise proposes that the study of complexity reveals "that however ...

The idea suggests that everything we know—space, time, even the human brain—emerges from a universal field of awareness, not the other way around. The theory was recently presented by Maria Strømme, ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

Scientists have long been trying to understand human consciousness—the subjective "stuff" of thoughts and sensations inside our minds. There used to be an assumption that consciousness is produced by ...

The title of this post is so astonishing that it needs explaining. Our origins as living beings go back to the very origin of the solar system, centered on one of the hundreds of billion stars in the ...