New studies: consciousness emerges before birth (and earlier than expected)
An international team of neuroscientists and philosophers suggests that consciousness could emerge before birth. The implications are enormous
An international team of neuroscientists and philosophers suggests that consciousness could emerge before birth. The implications are enormous
Consciousness is one of the most complex problems in neuroscience and philosophy: how does subjectivity emerge from matter? This is where we are in our studies.
Neurologists Claassen and Edlow found that a woman in a coma who could not physically respond to commands could still recognize them.
Do mushrooms have intelligence and conscience? A suggestive thesis, but free from “esoteric” considerations, and increasingly explored by scholars.
A new study identifies the heartbeat and its interaction with the brain as a way to better understand the degree of consciousness in those who do not show signs of it
A neuroscientist formulates a theory that goes in the opposite direction to those currents: consciousness resides in a magnetic field hitherto considered marginal.
Not all of them have disappeared leaving their bodies on a bed: some patients in a neurovegetative state are still there, we don't know how to get them back.