Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.

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 ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new ...

Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of ...

For the past 30 years, scientists have investigated whether the human brain might require quantum processes to achieve cognition. A new study from Shanghai University uses mathematical models to ...

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Comedian John Mulaney once said, “I don’t know what my body is for other than taking my head from room to room.” He’s not alone. A lot of people equate their essential selves, their consciousness, ...

The mere mention of “quantum consciousness” makes most physicists cringe, as the phrase seems to evoke the vague, insipid musings of a New Age guru. But if a new hypothesis proves to be correct, ...

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