Quantum consciousness theories are gaining scientific scrutiny as researchers test whether quantum effects shape awareness.

A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die. Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria ...

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In the era of large language models and talks of artificial general intelligence, scientists are understandably reinvigorated to understand the inner workings of human consciousness— and there are a ...

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Researchers have had much to say about psychedelic drug use over the decades. Rick Doblin is a U.S. researcher and founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). The ...

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But that doesn't mean science hasn't been trying, and one particularly fascinating idea, proposed by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an anesthesiologist in 1998, suggests that quantum effects ...

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