Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Last week, an article in Nature by Mariana Lenharo summarized the “wars” that have broken out in the field of consciousness studies. The main event was a bomb that was dropped last September, when ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...

New studies reveal consciousness is older and more widespread than believed, with birds showing signs of awareness and ...

A team of researchers suggests that four key brain patterns and behaviors that indicate conscious awareness in adults could be used to test consciousness in infants. For example, a telltale brain ...