The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness actually ...

“If you just take off the shelf the best theories we have on consciousness … it’s not a ridiculous idea by any means that there could be some forms of consciousness now or in the very near ...

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

If you believe that consciousness resides, however minimally, in matter’s tiniest building blocks — atoms, electrons, quarks — then it’s much easier to explain how sophisticated forms of ...

They’re called the five skandhas or aggregates of body or form. I like to refer to this one as the container, plus feelings, perceptions, mental process and consciousness. Actually, defining a ...

Namely, he covers the topics of Panpsychism, where every fundamental particle has some “proto-consciousness,” Idealism, where reality is entirely mental, and different forms of Dualism ...

Assuming that consciousness contributes to the survival ... connectivity of different areas of the brain takes on a different form. Wanja Wiese argues that this could be a difference between ...