In this Opinion article, we discuss how integrated information theory accounts for several aspects of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. Integrated information theory starts from ...

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

A team of researchers suggests that four key brain patterns and behaviors that indicate conscious awareness in adults could ...

Other adversarial studies on consciousness are ongoing. Seth, for example, is on the steering committee of an adversarial collaboration looking at IIT and two other theories of consciousness. This ...

This is an example of a higher state of consciousness – or, in my preferred term, an awakening experience. Awakening ...