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The question of exactly what consciousness is has puzzled philosophers and scientists alike for millennia.
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Scientists have warned that miniature brains grown in the lab may have become conscious and could be suffering.
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It turns out that staring into someone's eyes for ten minutes can induce an altered state of consciousness.
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For years, scientists have clashed over whether or not plants possess a form of conscious awareness.
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A recent experiment has called in to question our understanding of when a person's brain has truly 'died'.
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Scientists have been trying to find a way to definitively determine if a brain injured patient is conscious.
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A groundbreaking new trial is aiming to find a way to regenerate the brains of clinically dead patients.
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Scientists now believe that conscious awareness and subjective experience may be common in insects.
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Scientists have shed new light on how we experience the world through our perception of consciousness.
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Dmitry Itskov maintains that he will live forever by uploading his consciousness in to a robotic body.
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Transhumanists have been looking towards a future in which a person could spend their entire life awake.
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Having slipped in to a coma at the age of 12, Martin Pistorius didn't wake up again for over a decade.
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91-year-old Janina Kolkiewicz had been declared dead 11 hours before waking up inside a body bag.
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An extensive new medical study has found tantalising evidence that awareness may continue after we die.
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Scientists have identified the area of the brain responsible for triggering our conscious experience.
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Philosophers have pondered for thousands of years over the very nature of human consciousness.
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The results of a recent study have revealed that a strange new state of human consciousness may exist.