Scientists are using terahertz waves to study tiny structures in brain cells, called microtubules, that may be linked to ...

Is consciousness produced by the brain, or is it a deeper feature of reality? This question is a key focus of Christof Koch, ...

Researchers believe that chanting may induce altered states of consciousness—but they aren’t completely sure why. Possible ...

Behind the gleam of blinking screens, scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science staged one of the most intriguing confrontations in science. The goal was to uncover what makes us ...

The ICCS Conference arrives at a moment when consciousness research is becoming harder to contain within any single di ...

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where does consciousness come from?

In the 10 minutes before the official start of class, Professor Anne Harrington ’82 somehow managed to cover descriptions of Gilbert Ryle’s classic “category mistake” critique of mind-body dualism, ...

Your consciousness can connect you with the entire universe, a groundbreaking study suggests. Experts from Wellesley College in Massachusetts claim that traditional connections in the brain cannot ...

In a wild new experiment conducted on monkeys, scientists discovered that a tiny, but powerful area of the brain may enable consciousness: the central lateral thalamus. Activation of the central ...

A recent attempt to catalog all theories of consciousness identified 350 distinct approaches (Kuhn, 2024). A recent contest for the best essay in consciousness studies produced 3,000 diverse ...

Achieving a master’s degree with a focus on psychedelics and consciousness itself is now a reality, amid the psychedelic renaissance taking place in clinical research, showing true therapeutic ...

A new study addresses the question of whether psychedelics might change the attribution of consciousness to a range of living and nonliving things. Psychedelic drugs, like psilocybin, an ingredient ...