Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

It happens as often as 16% of our conscious lives: the mind simply goes blank. There is nothing inside, no verbal thinking, no mental images, nothing but the lack itself of mental processes.

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel.

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 ...

According to the great American philosopher Charles Peirce, the first rule of reason is: Do not block the way of inquiry. The history of science displays various questions that seriously blocked ...