Life-forms made of stuff we couldn’t imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

Everything we experience is linked to our consciousness. Despite this familiarity, consciousness remains a mystery. Source: Caleb Frith | Unsplash How do you feel right now? Happy? Sad? Excited? Do ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents' brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

"The universe may contain minds stranger than we can imagine." The post There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

What happens when we die? It’s one of the single greatest questions in the history of humankind, silently driving science and religion for centuries. The standard reductionist model says consciousness ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In Copernicus' time, this proposition was extremely scandalous, as it pointed to the idea that Earth is not necessarily special—our planet is just ...

One of the strangest theories currently being tossed around is the notion that we live in a conscious universe. The typical label for this hypothesis is panpsychism, an ancient belief that there is ...