One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

This post is in response to Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory By Paul L. Nunez PhD Does consciousness arise exclusively from complex interactions in brain tissue (materialism)? Or does ...

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...

What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

A dictionary definition describes consciousness as “the state of being aware of and responsive to one’s surroundings”. Self-awareness is an elaboration of consciousness and means being conscious of ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way ...

When Carlo Rovelli's bicycle chain comes off, he calls a bike-shop mechanic, never a particle physicist - even though ...

Defining consciousness: Researchers are refining definitions of consciousness, qualia, and information to better target what exactly needs explaining in the mind–brain problem. Neural clues: Studies ...

In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Strangely, modern science was long dominated ...