What if consciousness is central to reality, quantum mechanics, and the future alignment of artificial general intelligence?

There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might ...

A society that loses its capacity for guilt may still appear organised, but inwardly it is decaying In every society, laws regulate conduct, institutions enforce order, and customs shape everyday ...

Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got. This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can ...

Through the generosity of Mike and Phyllis Shea, David DeCosse, director, religious and Catholic ethics with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has spearheaded a project on the theology of ...

Consciousness has long been one of science’s most stubborn mysteries. We can map the brain in exquisite detail, decode neural circuits, and even build machines that rival human abilities in language ...

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 awareness may ...

"The courage St. Thomas More showed by his readiness to sacrifice his life rather than betray the truth makes him, also for us today, a martyr for freedom and for the primacy of conscience." Pope Leo ...