New studies reveal consciousness is older and more widespread than believed, with birds showing signs of awareness and ...
What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...
Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...
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Mit professor outlines the brain’s origin of consciousness and thought
Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying ...
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Massive study says experts may be wrong about consciousness
For decades, debates about consciousness have been driven by elegant theories and small, carefully controlled experiments.
Humans know they exist, but how does "knowing" work? Despite all that's been learned about brain function and the bodily ...
A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...
In this Opinion article, we discuss how integrated information theory accounts for several aspects of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. Integrated information theory starts from ...
Disorders of consciousness (DOC) arise from direct perturbations of neural systems that regulate arousal and awareness, and indirectly from disruptions in the connections between these systems ...
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