To celebrate, we have unlocked access to five in-depth features ... or indeed machines and forms of artificial intelligence, can also experience consciousness in the way that we do.

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 ...

A taxonomy of consciousness explanations. Credit: Robert Lawrence Kuhn (2024). Created by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Alex Gomez ...

To study this in more depth, this paper’s authors chose five major working theories of consciousness. These cover three of the four suggested types of models laid out by two influential ...

A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness ... the prefrontal cortex and perception stripped of a task would not. This “pure” form of consciousness would only require the sensory hot ...

Many of us as children may have wondered what's going on inside the mind of an animal—what are they thinking and feeling?

All three of these discoveries came in the last five years — indications that ... signed “The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness,” which was first presented at a conference at ...

The Wellesley study is significant because the physical source of consciousness has been a mystery ... or light particles, into a form of matter called excitons, transporting them to the plant ...

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 ...