Tag: consciousness
How to Detect Consciousness in People, Animals and Maybe Even AI
How to Detect Consciousness in People, Animals and Maybe Even AI Insights from human brains could inform how scientists search for awareness in all its possible forms By Mariana Lenharo & Nature magazine In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe…
Where Does Consciousness Come from? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head
Where Does Consciousness Come From? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about existence By Allison Parshall edited by Jeanna Bryner Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation,…
Brain Structure That Filters Consciousness Identified
Scientists Identify a Brain Structure That Filters Consciousness Our conscious awareness may be governed by a structure deep in the brain By Smriti Mallapaty & Nature magazine An MRI image of the human brain. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Neuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated…