Search results for: consciousness
Scientists are battling it out over rival theories of consciousness
9-29-2023 |
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Consciousness remains a fascinating enigma and the scientific community is unable to agree upon any one theory.
Philosophy meets physics in the quest to understand consciousness
9-27-2023 | 31
The nature of consciousness and whether or not it pervades the entire universe has long remained a topic of debate.
Consciousness may rely on brain cells acting collectively
8-20-2023 | 9
Neurophysiologist Par Halje looks at how research into psychedelics could help us understand consciousness.
Scientists compete to win $100,000 consciousness research prize
5-11-2023 | 8
More than 100 projects have been put forward in a bid to unlock the secrets of consciousness.
Consciousness may persist after death, study suggests
8-1-2022 | 189
Researchers now believe that consciousness may persist for up to 20 seconds after a person has clinically died.
New study links dopamine to consciousness
8-4-2021 | 1
New research has revealed how the 'pleasure chemical' dopamine plays a key role in human consciousness.
Can quantum physics explain consciousness ?
7-25-2021 | 15
Some scientists have speculated that consciousness could be the product of quantum processes.
Is consciousness the 'ghost in the machine' ?
6-5-2021 | 23
For centuries, mankind has struggled to understand the precise nature of human consciousness.
Are we all slaves to unconscious forces ?
5-27-2021 | 34
We all make hundreds of decisions every day, but by how much are these influenced by unconscious factors ?
'Engine of consciousness' found in macaques
2-24-2020 | 2
Scientists have identified an area of the brain that seems to be strongly connected to consciousness.
Could consciousness pervade the universe ?
1-17-2020 | 705
The question of exactly what consciousness is has puzzled philosophers and scientists alike for millennia.
Lab-grown brains could be 'sentient and in pain'
10-28-2019 | 29
Scientists have warned that miniature brains grown in the lab may have become conscious and could be suffering.
Staring into someone's eyes can induce OBEs
9-9-2019 | 27
It turns out that staring into someone's eyes for ten minutes can induce an altered state of consciousness.
Biologists clash over plant consciousness
VIDEO 7-7-2019 | 27
For years, scientists have clashed over whether or not plants possess a form of conscious awareness.
Scientists revive pig brains hours after death
4-18-2019 | 5
A recent experiment has called in to question our understanding of when a person's brain has truly 'died'.
What does a conscious brain look like ?
2-8-2019 | 4
Scientists have been trying to find a way to definitively determine if a brain injured patient is conscious.
Can a brain dead patient be brought back ?
5-4-2016 | 15
A groundbreaking new trial is aiming to find a way to regenerate the brains of clinically dead patients.
New study claims that insects are conscious
4-27-2016 | 22
Scientists now believe that conscious awareness and subjective experience may be common in insects.
Does consciousness occur in 'time slices' ?
4-18-2016 | 30
Scientists have shed new light on how we experience the world through our perception of consciousness.
Russian billionaire: 'I will live forever'
VIDEO 3-15-2016 | 44
Dmitry Itskov maintains that he will live forever by uploading his consciousness in to a robotic body.
