Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s ...

Two Theories Face Off to Explain the Origins of Consciousness Scientific American Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off.

These examples also show that while consciousness and awareness are clearly related, they are not the same thing. Consciousness has many dimensions, and awareness is just one of them—a distinct ...

The outer experience, called phenomenal consciousness, is when we immediately realize what we’re experiencing—for example, seeing a total solar eclipse or the northern lights. The inner experience is ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

If it makes sense to separate out consciousness and behavioral functioning, then it also makes sense to “mix and match” them in weird ways. We could imagine, for example, color inverts ...

For decades, there’s been a broad agreement among scientists that animals similar to us—the great apes, for example—may well have conscious experience, even if their consciousness differs ...

But he says that it makes its assumptions — for example, that consciousness has a physical basis and can be mathematically measured — very clear. There are dozens of theories that seek to ...

Quantum computers, for example, currently operate at around ... For this reason, the quantum consciousness theory has been dismissed outright by many scientists — though others are persuaded ...