Consciousness is perhaps one of the most challenging psychological topics of our time. Consciousness is also one of the most beautiful human possibilities: the capacity for subjective experience. One ...

A mathematical analysis suggests that the notion of agency, which is a prerequisite for consciousness, cannot be purely ...

Book of the Day: Few books in modern psychology have provoked as much fascination and controversy as The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. First ...

Two University of California, Santa Cruz Humanities professors have been named co-editors of an influential scholarly journal that addresses the most pressing issues of the 21st century, from the ...

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Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

Consciousness is not just experience—it is experience that can take itself as an object. The critical turn occurs when "happening" becomes "happening to me," and later becomes "me noticing myself ...

Celebrities, patrons, and art world luminaries – including Sir Isaac Julien, Distinguished Professor of History of Consciousness and the Arts – descended on London’s Kensington Gardens in droves on ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one common pattern for handling information. Each region of the cortex contains ...