A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress. Science routinely puts ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

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

In this post, the last of a five-part series, we will acquire an understanding of various theories that emphasize the importance of top-down signaling in shaping and enabling conscious perception.

In the waking state, a person's consciousness is continuously filled with sensations, memories, and reflections. However, ...

Sitting on the Marine Atlantic ferry, I’m watching the Newfoundland skyline disappear on the horizon as I type away. I see the rocking of the ocean waves, inhale its salty breeze, feel and hear the ...

The colour pink doesn’t exist in the external world as a distinct wavelength of light but exists as a perception in our minds. Source: Akira Hojo | Unsplash Pink and the myth of the colour wheel Pink ...