"Sometimes, after years of reading, research, and reflection on the origins of religion, something profound suddenly clicks into place....

"We define consciousness, and then answer the question whether AI machines are capable of being Conscious? How would we recognize it if...

Click on the link below for a 15-minute video that shatters the concept of a supernatural soul as the base of our consciousness: Another Fai...

"Artificial Intelligence continues to be the talk of the town, but how intelligent are they really? Come to think of it, what do we mea...

"Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’...

The brain is mysterious as is quantum mechanics. Thus, the temptation to accept claims by some "experts" that just thinking about ...

One of the great unknowns in our reality is what is consciousness and how is it achieved. Click on the link below for an interesting and dif...

" In this video I talk about a few approaches to mathematically describe consciousness and its shortcomings. I also briefly talk about ...

A few months ago I posted on brain oddities, specifically focusing on patients who had split-brain syndrome . This involves the severing of...

There is no greater example of the " God of the Gaps " (" Leap of Faith ") argument than what one can find in the area o...

One of my frequent YouTube video channels is " Closer to Truth " with Robert Lawrence Kuhn. It is from PBS television broadcasts. ...

Many pseudoscience-oriented folks attempt to use quantum mechanics to explain such unsupported claims such as human free will and consciousn...

The latest attempt by the religious to support the concept of an immaterial "soul" is to produce papers and articles hypothesizing...

"Sensations are the building blocks of consciousness. They must first be combined into perceptions and converted into objects in the e...

On the most recent Brain Science Podcast , Dr. Ginger Campbell, MD interviewed Jon Mallatt, who co-authored the book,  The Ancient Origins o...

"Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, suggested to the audience that consciousness is a kind of con game the br...

Do Insects Have Consciousness?

Hold on.  In the last few years, some scientists studying consciousness have been working on a promising hypothesis called Attention Schema ...

"If consciousness is indeed an emergent feature of a highly integrated network, as IIT suggests, then probably all complex systems – c...

Most scientists agree that consciousness (awareness of self and the world; ability to reflect) within humans (? also higher animals) is one...