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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There may be other forms of consciousness we cannot understand. Nonhuman animals' precise relationship to human consciousness doesn't make them less important. A different take.