An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where does consciousness come from?

Philosophy and theology are now joined by machine intelligence in shining a light on what is human.

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of ...

The biofield, mediated by light known as biophotons, could be the missing piece of the consciousness puzzle.

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Metaphors invite ways of thinking. If philosophical disagreements are battles, only one side can win. If memory is a storehouse, recollection requires search and retrieval (but maybe not if memory is ...

A group photo from the original meeting in March 2018 at the Allen Institute in Seattle, WA, that kicked off the set of adversarial collaborations. IIT suggests that consciousness emerges when ...