Consciousness is still mysterious and hard to describe and measure. One of the reasons is that it involves many different dimensions. Here we look at two of the main ones.

Check the person’s wrists and neck to see whether they have a first aid tag, which may have information about why they lost consciousness. Share the information on the tag with the ...

Although consciousness can’t be directly observed, if you're dealing with another human being, you can ask them what they're feeling, or look for external indications of consciousness.

He thinks if we developed a model for consciousness that demonstrated AI is conscious, we’d check a box and move on. “If accelerating consciousness research is going to lead to some findings ...

A groundbreaking study challenges Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am,” suggesting consciousness begins with bodily feelings, reshaping how we define awareness.

The notion that quantum physics must be the underlying mechanism for consciousness first emerged in the 1990s, when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose, Ph.D., and anesthesiologist Stuart ...

In this view, individual neurons are not conscious, but thanks to the collective properties of some 86 billion neurons and their interactions—which, admittedly, are still only poorly understood ...

These perceptions seem to become conscious when the baton is passed back, from the deeper parts of the brain to the primary visual cortex, creating a loop of activity.