In The Deep History of Ourselves, neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, from the Center for Neural Science at New York University, produces a fundamental conclusion: “No self, no emotion.”(2019, p 369) This ...

Not long ago a conversation between Google engineers and AI ethicists about the possibility of consciousness and emotions in artificial networks, appearing in The Economist and The Washington Post, ...

Your brain has a place of residence — your mind does not. More and more, science is showing us the ways in which our intelligence and consciousness inhabit our entire being. A heart transplant patient ...

A human being's psychological make-up depends on an array of emotional and motivational parameters, such as desire, suffering or the need for security. In addition, it includes spatial and temporal ...

Forget ‘I think therefore I am’. In a new theory of embodied consciousness, the neuroscientists Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio propose that feelings are the source of consciousness. Long dismissed ...

“I think, therefore I am,” René Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, famously wrote in 1637. His idea was straightforward: even if your senses, the world, or your body ...

The body's internal rhythms and our perception of time are deeply linked, shaping everything from sleep to overall health.

For decades, scientists have searched the brain for the origins of consciousness. But according to a new peer-reviewed study published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews by researchers Anil K.