George Charles Beresford, Virginia Woolf in 1902. Source: Wikipedia Commons. Where is your consciousness? Can you describe its location? For the sake of the experiment, let’s define consciousness ...
Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this reside in ...
Scientists are digging into one of evolution’s strangest puzzles — why only certain creatures developed minds that know they ...
What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...
A radical new theory from Professor Maria Strømme suggests that consciousness may not originate in the brain but instead ...
It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...
Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...
Summary: Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum explore why consciousness evolved and why different species developed it in distinct ways. By comparing humans with birds, they show that complex ...