A new paper from two U.K. neuropsychologists argues that consciousness is not the simple result of evolution of the central nervous system, but that it likely arose as a means for humans to better ...

1 In his 2024 book From Sensing to Sentience, 2 psychiatrist-neurologist Todd Feinberg focuses on the evolution of sentience—the subjective “feeling” aspects of consciousness—and its ...

Dr Peter Verheyen explores quantum bits and consciousness, focusing this time on biochemical information processing ...

The science that was repulsive to an idea of religious belief thus began to embrace religious ideas culminating with the ...

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In his 2024 ...