One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way ...

In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious.

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What if everything in our world has a soul and mind? What if every desk, chair, and potted plant has a conscious stream of thoughts? That's the basic idea behind Panpsychism, a theory first put ...

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Defining consciousness: Researchers are refining definitions of consciousness, qualia, and information to better target what exactly needs explaining in the mind–brain problem. Neural clues: Studies ...

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...

The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the ...

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Crows, chimps and elephants: these and many other birds and mammals behave in ways that suggest they might be conscious. And the list does not end with vertebrates. Researchers are expanding their ...