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Topic: Consciousness

Young woman next to lighttrace face, wearing VR glasses, looking closely at the lightrace rendering. (Getty Images / Henrik Sorensen)

How virtual reality can alter the "self"

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A Pacific giant octopus crawls over a colorful anemone filled bottom. (Getty Images / Mauricio Handler)

Maybe don't anthropomorphize octopuses

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Man with eyes closed standing in blurred light. (Addictive Stock / Getty Images)

Trippy breathwork isn't for everyone

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Person admiring the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) (Getty Images/Marco Bottigelli)

Psychedelic healing and feelings of awe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Brain in Space (Getty Images/Jumpstart Studios)

Can science crack our consciousness?

Rae Hodge
Eye of the universe, concept (Getty Images/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI)

Is universal consciousness legitimate?

Rae Hodge
Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, and Retired Navy Commander David Fravor | Still image released by the Pentagon of and "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/US Pentagon)

UFO experts question Pentagon's report

Rae Hodge
February 26, 2024, the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, known as Etisalat, is holding a demonstration of an android at the Mobile World Congress. Alongside the android demonstration, the first flying car is being presented, and artificial intelligence applications are taking center stage. (Charlie Perez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Are AI brains in robot bodies conscious?

Rae Hodge
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Computer artwork of an ECG (electrocardiogram) trace in front of a human brain (Getty Images/PASIEKA)

Scanning the brains of the dying

Troy Farah
Bonobo babies play with a mirror (Getty Images/ANDREYGUDKOV)

8 animals who pass the "mirror test"

Nicole Karlis
Futuristic glowing low-polygonal bacilli bacteria and flu virus cells (Getty Images/inkoly)

Are viruses alive?

Matthew Rozsa
Spotlight on a virus spore (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

The gene that explains consciousness

Matthew Rozsa
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Galaxy Brain (Getty Images/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Is consciousness a quantum phenomenon?

Troy Farah
Brain Shaped Bonsai Tree (Getty Images/Viaframe)

The new science on plant consciousness

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Marija Jovovic)

Demystifying the idea of consciousness

Emily Cataneo - Undark
One lit light bulb among many unlit lightbulbs (Getty Images/Rulles)

Why efficiency can make you irrational

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Brain with eyeglasses (Getty Images/Jolygon)

The brain has a "backup system"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Panpsychism: Is everything alive?

Matthew Rozsa
Man on the edge of pier (Getty Images)

Finding hope in hopelessness

Robert Burton
Illustration of AI robot. (Getty Images)

A.I. research hits a dead end

Thomas Nail
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(Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fitbit)

How life got reduced to management

Keith A. Spencer
(pogonici, via Shutterstock)

Building a study of consciousness

Ashley Juavinett
A photo of the author with her mother.

Sisterhood and Rachel Dolezal

Alli Joseph

Deepak Chopra Talks Science

Alexandra Clinton
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