About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms poking out of dark soil, picked one of the brown caps, and examined its ...

Under the influence of psychedelics, many report that plants seem to be alive. Is it wrong to assume we’re the only sentient ...

So far on this page I’ve argued that human consciousness first began to radically diverge from those of other species when our ancestors started designing and using tools to transform the world, ...

Michael Pollan explores theories of consciousness in animals, plants and machines, examining the “hard problem” of subjective experience in his new book “A World Appears”.

During a trip, language could become temporarily irrelevant, researchers say. That speechlessness may be linked to sensing ...

This week comes the first online version of the famous TSC consciousness conference, normally held every other year in Tucson, Arizona. ‘TSC’ originally meant ‘Towards a Science of Consciousness’ but ...

The phenomenon of inattentional blindness seems to show you can see without the information crossing into your consciousness.

Conscious experience is central to human life, yet the processes underlying its emergence remain among the most debated questions in behavioral ...