This is part 2 of a 5-part series. Part 1 provided an overview of the leading theories of consciousness. In this post, we will focus on higher-order theories (HOTs) of consciousness, one of several ...

Consciousness research in 2025 has shifted from abstract philosophy to concrete lab results, with competing theories now ...

You’re living in a three-dimensional world. We all are. You can go left, right, forward, backward, up, and down. Now, picture a being that can pop in and out of your reality as if pressing a button, ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Leeds Beckett University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, ...

A marked feature of western psychology in the twentieth and twenty first century, at least in its North American form, has been its focus on pathology. Oceans of ink have been spilled on topics such ...

In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain injury and showed no sign of awareness. But when researchers scanning her ...

You must have heard one more time from somewhere that our brains are literally made of the same ‘star stuff’ as the universe.truncate But it gets way weirder. A 2016 study claimed scientists had ...