Neuroscientist Christof Koch argues consciousness may be a fundamental feature of reality, reshaping how we understand the ...

Panpsychism, the philosophical position that consciousness is a fundamental and widespread feature of the physical world, has moved from the margins of academic debate into serious scientific ...

God is everything, and everything is God. That is, according to pantheism, an umbrella term for a set of beliefs that suggest God did not create the universe—but that God is the universe. For hundreds ...

By Shri Shri Anandmurti What we call matter, whether an atom, molecule, mountain, river, or human body, is ultimately condensed energy. Matter is simply energy existing in a compact and organised form ...

This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest of the series here. An astrophysicist and a surgeon ...

For centuries, the question of what consciousness is—where it comes from, and what it does—was left to philosophers and mystics. But now, scientists across biology, neuroscience, and physics are ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

In this season of reflection, it's awe-inspiring to consider how so much is still beyond our scientific understanding — from the big questions of the origins of the universe and life, to the more ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence ...

A FEW years ago, if someone had told me that I was the universe experiencing itself through a woman from Guyana who enjoys poetry, gardening, babies, dogs, and entirely too much food, I would have ...