The possibility of uploading human consciousness into a computer or machine, once a staple of science fiction, has entered ...

The brain is the reason humans are at the top of the food chain, but many questions remain unanswered. Now, scientists are ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

More than half a billion people around the world have downloaded artificial-intelligence chatbot companion apps such as ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

Tech mogul Elon Musk's recent philosophical post on the nature of reality has sparked widespread interest. His ventures like ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Source: Ben White| Unsplash Imagine being out on a clear summer day and feeling the warmth of the sun shining on your face. Or imagine the joy of being with a loved one, the thrill of riding a ...

A seven-year wait is over for fans of the fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon, as Seacoast author Dan Brown has ...

Thousands of near-death experiences show consistent patterns, including out-of-body awareness and feelings of peace. New brain studies reveal organized neural activity during cardiac arrest, matching ...

How deep and wide are the roots of our experience? What if experience is so much deeper, broader, and more varied than we once thought? How often has reality not been as it appears to us, as what we ...