The question of, “What is consciousness?” is no longer exclusively the realm of ancient philosophers and dorm-room debaters.

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Humans possess unique self-awareness, experiencing emotions and consciousness that science struggles to fully understand, ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

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Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using direct intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study has identified ...

There are at least some markers of joy that appear to be quite widespread across animals. One is vocalizations that resemble ...

But science is rarely so cut-and-dry – so ... None of these viewpoints are necessarily without merit – but as the bar for consciousness gets pushed higher, the consequences become ever ...

Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious ...

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For most modern scholars, Cartesian dualism is considered taboo. However, consciousness still remains unsolved by science until now. The Hard Problem of Consciousness Before the 1990s, many people ...