Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the next 400 years—as a thinking mind, first and foremost. The experiment used a ...

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Kahneman said not to expect the results to change anyone's mind, even if they decisively favored one theory over another.

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A landmark study tested two leading theories of consciousness — Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) — but found neither definitively explained conscious ...

The researchers found that consciousness may not arise in the “smart” part of the brain — the frontal areas where thinking is ...

Neuroscientists publish the results of a study that was designed to determine which theory of human consciousness came ...