The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

George Charles Beresford, Virginia Woolf in 1902. Source: Wikipedia Commons. Where is your consciousness? Can you describe its location? For the sake of the experiment, let’s define consciousness ...

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in ...

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...

New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.