This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose consciousness under anesthesia.

A grand experiment pitted two rival theories of consciousness against each other. Critics have condemned one of the two theories as pseudoscience, and have questioned whether the new study can deliver a clear verdict on either of them

“When it becomes accepted that the mind is a quantum phenomenon, we will have entered a new era in our understanding of what we are,” he says.

a drug binding to microtubules delayed unconsciousness in rats under anesthesia.

A silent symphony is playing inside your brain right now as neurological pathways synchronize in an electromagnetic chorus that's thought to give rise to consciousness.

Author Christof Koch shares 5 key insights from his new book, Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It.

Consciousness is ultimately about being, not about doing. We are liberating ourselves from the constraints of strait-laced physicalism with an empirically testable theory that centers on experience, meaning the only thing that exists for itself, in an absolute sense. A theory that explains how the mind and its causal powers create the world, including the most active piece of organized matter in the known universe: the brain.

the research to date suggests that Consciousness evolved three times in early fish-like vertebrates more than 500 million years ago and a common ancestor of arthropods such as insects spiders and Crustaceans at around the same time and then in the cephalopod mollusks around 300 million years ago

There’s a battle over consciousness research – and whether it can be understood purely through science.

Opponents of IIT may in part be motivated by a desire to sharply distinguish the science from the philosophy of consciousness, thus ensuring the former is perceived – in particular by funders – as a serious scientific enterprise.