“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

Key points Phenomenal consciousness is the feeling of what it’s like to be you. Information-processing systems, such as attention, provide the contents to consciousness. The purpose of ...

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Deepak Chopra says consciousness is like the mythical Hydra — answer one question and two more spring up. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Brain Mapping Foundation ) After decades ...

Attention, and the brain’s internal model or schema of its attentional processes, plays a central role in consciousness, and may explain why people believe consciousness is nonphysical.

Ultimately what we need is a satisfying scientific theory of consciousness that predicts under which conditions any particular physical system—whether it is a complex circuit of neurons or ...

Scientists are uncovering how consciousness may reshape reality, exploring its links to quantum physics, cellular behavior, and even psychedelics.

Ironically, this dismissal actually holds the answer to all ten questions posed by the New Scientist article. First let me relate the ten question, which don’t have to be considered in detail ...