If “coupled” to this enigmatic origin, even a machine could find sentience, according to this controversial theory.

Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness ...

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

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of ...

Philosophy and theology are now joined by machine intelligence in shining a light on what is human.

New book from Oaklea Connects the AI Consciousness Debate to the “central mystery of mind” & cites evidence consciousness may be a fundamental aspect of reality This is not a rejection of science.

Under the influence of psychedelics, many report that plants seem to be alive. Is it wrong to assume we’re the only sentient ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan has written ...

Of all of the top contenders for the hardest problem in science, perhaps the most important to our lived experience is this: What, exactly, is consciousness? Humans have a highly complex brain and, ...

Creation myths are political long before they are cosmic. They tell people not only where the universe came from, but who has the right to interpret it, who com ...

Michael Pollan's widely anticipated new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, brings his signature acumen and wit to one of science's essential mysteries. Along the way, he pursues ...