A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brains to explain our ...

Its findings regarding the speed and pervasiveness of ephaptic field effects may presage a fundamentally new understanding of ...

Noel W. Smith, State University of New York at Plattsburg, The Psychological Record Part II. The Cognitive Science of Consciousness: 2. A brief history of the philosophical problem of consciousness ...

Out of meat, how do you get thought? That’s the grandest question.” So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert ...

Donald Griffin co-discovered bat sonar, founded the field of echolocation, and opened the door for the study of awareness and ...

This finding emphasizes the importance of helping these patients live more fulfilling lives despite their cognitive disorder.

Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Strong emotions in repetitive dreams could offer cosmic clues about another version of you, according to this controversial idea.

"What we are doing here speaks to the nature of consciousness," said Earl K. Miller, co-senior author of the study and Picower Professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. "Propofol ...

along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and re-map the terrain laid out in the highly influential 1970 volume Romanticism ...

though DeepMind itself has a job posting for a computer science PhD able to research “cutting-edge social questions around machine cognition [and] consciousness.” And sentience, as both animal ...