The writer discusses a few of the works that influenced his new book, “A World Appears.” ...

This breathtaking clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.

Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a higher dimension, potentially enabling it to transcend the physical constraints ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...

For his part, Stuart Hameroff has certainly spent plenty of practical time dealing specifically with consciousness in the operating theater. The (heavily disputed) Penrose-Hameroff theory is known as ...

We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much ...

Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is about a group of romantics who lived, loved, and worked around the year 1800 in Jena: men and women who were philosophers, writers, poets, scientists, and ...

The mind-body problem addresses one of the fundamental questions of science and humanity. How is consciousness related to the body and brain? How is subjective experience connected with the material ...