Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

The California legal restraint — called Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) — is only applied to people deemed to have a “grave ...

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said he was worried about being considered a "meathead and therefore an idiot" when he got to Silicon ...

In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

“The move from panpsychism to fine-tuning or some sort of anti-Darwinian view is by no means entailed by panpsychism, it’s a ...

This is our Universe, an ever-expanding network of stars and galaxies. And this is your brain. Don't they look eerily similar ...

The only reasonable stance on conscious AI is “agnosticism”: that we won’t, and may never, be able to tell, says a philosophy-of-consciousness expert. This gulf in our knowledge could be exploited by ...

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 ...

The idea suggests that everything we know—space, time, even the human brain—emerges from a universal field of awareness, not the other way around. The theory was recently presented by Maria Strømme, ...