It's time to stop bickering, accept what science tells us, acknowledge the widespread occurrence of intentional behavioral flexibility, and pay attention to why it has evolved.

I want to explore the notion that one can be awake without being conscious. Normally, most of us think that to be awake is also to be conscious. That is a natural thought. We wake up in the morning ...

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Babies blink, cry, and yawn—and a few weeks into their lives, they might smile. But do these movements mean that newborns have conscious experiences of perceiving the world around them? Or are these ...

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Consciousness may actually pause while you’re awake. The brain patterns during mind blanking resemble markers seen in deep sleep or anesthesia (disrupted connectivity, impaired sensory processing) but ...