A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

One of the strangest theories currently being tossed around is the notion that we live in a conscious universe. The typical label for this hypothesis is panpsychism, an ancient belief that there is ...

The idea suggests that everything we know—space, time, even the human brain—emerges from a universal field of awareness, not the other way around. The theory was recently presented by Maria Strømme, ...

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness actually ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is treating it as a serious scientific question. Instead of seeing consciousness ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

This post is Part 1 of a series. In an earlier post, I explored how meaning might arise in a physical, meaningless universe—drawing in part on physicist Carlo Rovelli’s relational account, which ...