Back at the turn of the penultimate century, the Spanish biologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal used a new staining technique that allowed scientists to see, for the first time, the individual cells of the ...

"How is it that something as unconscious as the matter of the brain ever gives rise to something as immaterial as an experience?" Russell, a prominent thinker in the fields of consciousness and ...

Philosopher David Chalmers asks why humans have a sense of self, a constantly running movie full of sensation and internal chatter. He offers two ideas about the nature of consciousness. David ...

In the 1990s Australian philosopher David Chalmers framed the challenge of distinguishing between the “easy” problems and the “hard” problem of consciousness. Easy problems involve explaining behavior ...

Pacifica Graduate Institute has announced a special pre-conference Cinema & Psyche event as part of Journey Week 2024. In partnership with the Illuminate Film Festival, Pacifica Graduate Institute ...

COMMENTARY: Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise. Medical teams at six research ...

There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers has found. There is evidence that some form of ...

Could artificial intelligence (AI) become conscious? What used to be a philosophical “thought experiment” is now a real-world conundrum. AI’s explosive development, especially the Large Language ...