Physicist Michael Pravica has put forth a revolutionary theory suggesting that human consciousness may originate from a ...

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At this point in our collective consciousness, humankind’s emergence from the natural world is a universally accepted truth.

The two major philosophical positions on the hard problem of consciousness are materialism and dualism. Dualists view mental and physical realms as distinct aspects of reality, while materialists ...

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There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and colleagues in ...