Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

I recently read an informative update about how the human brain, a relatively small squishy tofu-like organ, makes sense of the most baffling problem in the science of the mind—consciousness. Here are ...

Have you ever felt that reality is deeper than what meets the eye? That perhaps our everyday experience is just the surface ...

What does it mean to be conscious? People have been thinking and writing about this question for millennia. Yet many things about the conscious mind remain a mystery, including how to measure and ...