Turner Prize-nominated artist Isaac Julien joins the BBC to talk about his film work Lessons of the Hour – which is screening from this weekend until next April at Perth Museum, on the site where the ...

ArtReview, one of the world’s leading contemporary art magazines, has named University of California, Santa Cruz Arts and Humanities Professor Sir Isaac Julien as the fifth most influential artist in ...

A research team is using ultrasound to map the deep-brain circuits that may give rise to conscious experience.

One way to unravel the mystery of consciousness is to examine its opposite—the state of unconsciousness. A person can become unconscious through general anesthesia, a medically induced coma. The ...

An unprecedented brain study has delivered fresh clues about consciousness—suggesting it's more about perception than planning. Two leading theories went head-to-head, but neither emerged victorious.

People have long pondered what consciousness actually is. Consciousness seems very different from other biological functions—like some sort of nonmaterial essence within our heads. Thoughts and ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...

The quantum theory of consciousness long seemed like a radical idea, but growing evidence is making some neuroscientists take ...

Consciousness is your awareness of your thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments. It comes in different stages and levels that can change throughout the day. Conscious awareness lets ...

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An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and ...