For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...

What is the fundamental ground of reality? What will ultimately ground our "theory of everything"? Philosophers and scientists tend to give three very different answers to these questions. Three ...

Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That is what panpsychists like the philosopher Philip Goff believe. They ...

With the rise of brain-interface technology and artificial intelligence that can imitate brain functions, understanding the nature of consciousness and how it interacts with reality is not just an age ...

"Reality is not what it seems," is an obvious yet profound quote from the novel “Observer” written by Dr. Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress. This quote hints at a revolutionary perspective on the nature of ...

The big thinkers at Aperture examine consciousness as a fundamental aspect of reality.

Modern physics has been shaped by great minds, yet somehow physics hasn’t explained what the mind is. For decades consciousness was not a respectable area of inquiry in physics, yet the great quantum ...