Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

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The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

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 ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They ...

People have long pondered what consciousness actually is. Consciousness seems very different from other biological functions—like some sort of nonmaterial essence within our heads. Thoughts and ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for subjective experience, yet the scientific community remains sharply divided over ...