Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave of research is converging on a more grounded answer, suggesting that ...

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 ...

St. John Henry Newman, a British-born scholar who dedicated much of his life to the combination of faith and intellect at universities, is pictured in an undated portrait. Credit: OSV News file ...

Consciousness is a brain-generated neurologic illusion. The brain creates representations of reality, self, other people, objects, set designs, and landscape, which correspond quite accurately to ...