In the case of consciousness, the soul or God’s existence, science can’t offer a great deal to understanding it. Regardless, my own consciousness is as obvious to me as is the consciousness of ...

Consciousness can be described in terms of four vectors: 1) a narrating ego; 2) a core primate self; 3) a public persona; and 4) pure awareness via witness consciousness.

In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published today in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at ...

Consciousness is everything a person experiences – someone's awareness of their thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories. But where does this happen in the brain? Scientists haven’t yet agreed ...

Human consciousness requires arousal (i.e., wakefulness) and awareness ; Brain imaging studies over the last decade have produced connectivity maps of the cortical networks that sustain awareness ...