To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

For cardiac arrest patients who subsequently undergo PCI, their degree of consciousness before the procedure is a strong predictor of in-hospital outcomes, according to observational data from ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, ...

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 ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

Evolution often examines animals on an individualistic level, but more modern ideas explore how evolution can impact genetics and cultures and societies. A new paper from two U.K. neuropsychologists ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.