Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The same brain systems used to remember the past also shape conscious experience of the present and expectations of the future.

Experts looked deep inside the human mind and found a hidden door they cannot explain ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

Scientists, Michael Pollan acknowledges, have subsequently discovered a lot about consciousness: the sentience of plants and animals, the origin and nature of feelings, ways in which we think, why ...

This breathtaking clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

Higher states of consciousness are not hallucinations but authentic transformational experiences, mostly triggered by turmoil ...

When one thinks of art, it is often the scale, visibility, and spectacle that come to mind. But artist Sonika Agarwal''s work ...

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A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to ...

This argument aligns with the so-called hard problem of consciousness, which asks why subjective experience exists at all. The author maintains that increasing computational complexity does not ...

Scientists from Boston University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Toronto are advancing a shared idea about how the mind works. They argue that the same brain systems used ...