Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Over 100 scientists and philosophers recently decried a leading consciousness ...

The debate over the source of human consciousness has persisted for thousands of years, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. While we have made huge advancements in neuroscience in recent years, our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one ...

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a widely discussed—and, by some, strongly promoted —“mathematical theory of consciousness” developed over the past 10-20 years or so, mainly by neuroscientist ...

Tim Bayne is affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of ...

The origin of consciousness has teased the minds of philosophers and scientists for centuries. In the last decade, neuroscientists have begun to piece together its neural underpinnings—that is, how ...