New research offers a way to identify consciousness in living and artificial systems.

Consciousness isn’t something you either have or don’t — it exists on a gradient, from simple organisms to highly self-aware minds. Humans sit near the top, but not necessarily at the end. Scientists ...

Consciousness research, bridging psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and contemplative science, has become an ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Consciousness—human or otherwise—is a question that’s plagued history’s greatest thinkers ever since our species first started pondering the cosmos, ...