Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

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

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

What does it mean for God not only to take on flesh but to take on a very specific and highly individualized human ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

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

When your mind goes blank, visual stimuli never reaches awareness. Study mapped the unique brain patterns behind these mental ...

Letters: We should take AI risks seriously, but doing so requires conceptual clarity, says Prof Virginia Dignum. Plus letters from John Robinson and Eric Skidmore ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

A radical new theory from Professor Maria Strømme suggests that consciousness may not originate in the brain but instead exist as a universal field, with individual minds acting like temporary waves ...