Academics are proposing a new and improved way to help researchers discover when consciousness emerges in human infancy. When over the course of development do humans become conscious? When the ...

The two major philosophical positions on the hard problem of consciousness are materialism and dualism. Dualists view mental and physical realms as distinct aspects of reality, while materialists ...

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In his 2024 ...

This study is led by Prof. Jiang Zhang (School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University and Swarma Research). He has been pursuing the essence behind the emergent phenomena in complex systems.

Scientists are exploring a revolutionary theory that suggests human consciousness might operate as a quantum hologram, potentially extending across space and time. This concept, which integrates ...