Modern life accelerated the trend toward isolation even before the pandemic, and now the symptoms of loneliness, weakened relationships, depression, and anxiety have only deepened. One reads that a ...

A new study involved high-resolution scans that enabled the researchers to visualize brain connections at submillimeter spatial resolution. Together, these pathways form a 'default ascending arousal ...

A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, ...

Dr. Neil Theise, physician, scientist, philosopher and author of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being, invites us to trade our limited, individualistic view ...

Beyond spirited dinner party debate, establishing which creatures have consciousness matters in terms of animal welfare and conservation policy. A Michigan State University philosophy scholar has ...

Imagine an alien spacecraft landing on Earth, a mysterious entity unlike anything ever seen before. Now, envision our brain as an intricate spaceship, and the researchers in the COST Action The neural ...

Do AI companions create a consciousness connection? Since AI companions do not have a consciousness being in their system, they can’t create that type of relationship, but they can create something ...