A dream team of European neuroscientists is advancing toward a unified theory of consciousness, potentially unlocking the ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

A controversial theory has been stirring up the scientific community, suggesting that the human soul, often considered an ...

Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which has become quite a hot topic in contemporary neuroscience, claims to provide a precise way to measure consciousness and express the phenomenon in purely ...

The debate over the source of human consciousness has persisted for thousands of years, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. While we have made huge advancements in neuroscience in recent years, our ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s and further developed in collaboration ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: “Can’t we all just get along?” They analyzed how five ...