Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

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Quantum simulators are a completely new tool for research: quantum physics is studied by other kinds of quantum physics.

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The exact causes of contagious yawning are still debated, but two leading hypotheses are the nonconscious mimicry hypothesis and the empathic modeling hypothesis. These theories suggest that ...

Charon and Earth’s moon are both a large fraction of the size of the main body they orbit, which is unlike other smaller moons orbiting planets throughout our solar system. (Pluto has four smaller ...

A new study, relying on the “many worlds interpretation” of quantum mechanics—along with a concept known as “decoherent histories”—shows that increased energy levels suppress possibilities until only ...