Higher states of consciousness are not hallucinations but authentic transformational experiences, mostly triggered by turmoil ...

What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic. Subscribe to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one ...

Purposes of pleasure and pain? Our conscious experience makes up our lives, often through positive pleasure: I feel the warm sun on my skin, I hear the singing of birds, I enjoy the moment. Yet we ...

Some research suggests that children must experience consciousness differently—in a less “frontal” way, with much more attentional flexibility and conscious enjoyment. This different type of conscious ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.

In grammar, we learn about the past, present, and future tenses from an early age. This shapes our understanding of time as a one-way arrow. Eggs break, but don’t un-break; we grow older, but never ...

The brains of mammals continuously combine signals originating from different regions to produce various sensations, emotions ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.

Do trees have minds? A friend posed this question during one of the high school afternoons we habitually spent—no doubt with too much time on our hands—engaging in amateur philosophical banter. It ...