For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from ...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research contends that developing scientific tests ...

From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and ...

Can we be conscious without language? Does language influence our conscious experience? These questions, which are central to understanding the human mind, have been explored by researchers at the ...

As AI and brain technology advance, scientists warn understanding of consciousness and awareness is lagging behind, raising ...

This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence program. The human species has long grappled with the question of what makes ...

Levels and states of awareness ...

This is Part 4 of a four-part series on What Actually Are Emotions? “Understanding the cognitive basis of emotional experience is a subset of the problem of understanding the cognitive foundations of ...

Many scientists, even physical scientists, assert that the Holy Grail of science is to understand human consciousness. This human state is even hard to define, but is characterized by a state in which ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...