I spent the waning days of summer grinding away at columns and working on a feature. But I missed a chance at a striking change of scenery—cruising the Galápagos with about a dozen prominent ...

Beginning this fall, students can pursue a new major in contemplative studies, an interdisciplinary program that combines ...

We don’t care for others because they’re conscious. We believe they’re conscious because we care about them, argues Blaise Agüera y Arcas ...

Have you ever stopped to think about what your brain is actually doing right now? For decades, standard science has told us a pretty straightforward story: your brain is a biological supercomputer, ...

Prolonged disorders of consciousness (pDOC) represent states in which patients fail to show reliable evidence of awareness after severe brain injury. Despite the availability of validated tools, the ...

Right now, a groundbreaking new theory that sounds like science fiction or philosophy—that “consciousness created this universe”—is gaining significant attention in the world of physics and among ...

Wellness is having a moment in Hollywood and it is bigger than green juice, sound baths, and cold plunges. A new wave of high-consciousness living is shaping the cultural conversation, and unlike past ...

Biohacking has moved far beyond supplements, trackers, and wearables. The next frontier is the environment itself. As performance optimization gets more advanced, innovators are beginning to ask a new ...

Can a “friendly” rivalry between two artificial intelligence (AI) agents help reveal how the brain supports consciousness? That’s the suggestion coma researcher Martin Monti and his colleagues at the ...

Let’s swing for the fences with this one, shall we? Some questions are timeless because they’re so fundamental that everyone ponders them at some point in life (often—for me at least—in the shower).

In an effort to solve the riddle of why we have subjective conciousness, scientists have develop myriad theories, including ones involving the quantum realm. A new theory suggests that consciousness ...