Heritage is not just history but a "shared consciousness" of humanity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday while encouraging people to leverage heritage to enhance global wellbeing and forge ...

An unusual new idea in neuroscience suggests that our consciousness is derived from a field of electromagnetic waves given off by neurons as they fire. The idea is that these waves of electrical ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Although ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

A new essay explores which conditions must be met for consciousness to exist. At least one of them can't be found in a computer. Would it be desirable for artificial intelligence to develop ...

An unprecedented brain study has delivered fresh clues about consciousness—suggesting it's more about perception than planning. Two leading theories went head-to-head, but neither emerged victorious.

Consciousness is the state of being aware of oneself and the environment. It is associated with wakefulness, responsiveness and arousal. Consciousness is typically measured by verbal reports about ...

After decades spent ignoring the whole issue of consciousness, recent years have seen a boom, or at least a boomlet, of scientific interest. So it wasn’t entirely a breakthrough when the July 10 issue ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Over 100 scientists and philosophers recently decried a leading consciousness ...

Consciousness is a brain-generated neurologic illusion. The brain creates representations of reality, self, other people, objects, set designs, and landscape, which correspond quite accurately to ...

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 rarely ...