For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from ...

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Can we be conscious without language? Does language influence our conscious experience? These questions, which are central to understanding the human mind, have been explored by researchers at the ...

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape ...

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Consciousness studies is too much like the blind men with the elephant. Here's an explanation for the blind spot and how we can work around it.

A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to ...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating ...

Researchers believe other species could help explain the mysterious origins of our consciousness. One new paper argues that consciousness evolved in distinct waves from environmental pressures, like a ...

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A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...