Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

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 ...

Defining consciousness is a task that scientists and philosophers have never been really able to do. Recently, European researchers took an engineering approach to this problem in designing BabyBot, a ...

Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Civic Leadership, University of Texas at ...