In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...

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 ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

Many top professionals and leaders may feel uneasy about AI. Here’s why—and what it reveals about human intelligence.

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

From the vantage point of the Unified Theory Of Knowledge (UTOK), we can frame the root of many modern philosophical confusions via the "Enlightenment Gap." This refers to the fact that the ...

Three studies at the University of Zurich demonstrate that hypnosis alters activity in the large-scale functional networks of the brain. It also affects the neurochemical milieu of specific brain ...

Thousands of near-death experiences show consistent patterns, including out-of-body awareness and feelings of peace. New brain studies reveal organized neural activity during cardiac arrest, matching ...

Much like the Xenomorph's life cycle, the "Alien" franchise continues to burgeon with the latest instalment, "Alien: Earth," which takes events to 2120 – two years before Ellen Ripley and the doomed ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...