The biofield, mediated by light known as biophotons, could be the missing piece of the consciousness puzzle.

A peer-reviewed paper published in Frontiers in Psychology proposes that consciousness is not simply a byproduct of brain activity but instead acts as a top-down force that shapes neural processes.

A growing body of neuroscience research is challenging a basic assumption about how the brain produces awareness. Where conventional theories treat consciousness as a product of neuronal firing alone, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the mid-1990s, cognitive scientist David Chalmers pondered what he referred to as the “hard problem of consciousness,” which (to put it simply) ...

Tue, November 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC Nature abhors a vacuum, and the same can be said about mysteries of science. Whenever some phenomenon seems inexplicable—at least, with the theories and laws that ...

The phenomenon of inattentional blindness seems to show you can see without the information crossing into your consciousness.

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 ...