The integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) is divisive: while some believe it
provides an unprecedentedly powerful approach to address the 'hard problem', others …

Disorders of consciousness (DoCs) pose a significant clinical and ethical challenge
because they allow for complex forms of conscious experience in patients where intentional …

Recent activities in virtually all fields engaged in consciousness studies indicate early signs
of a structural turn, where verbal descriptions or simple formalisations of conscious …

Breathwork is an understudied school of practices involving intentional respiratory
modulation to induce an altered state of consciousness (ASC). We simultaneously …

Is a human more conscious than an octopus? In the science of consciousness, it's oftentimes
assumed that some creatures (or mental states) are more conscious than others. But in …

First-person reports of major depressive disorder reveal that when an individual becomes
depressed a profound change or 'shift'to one's conscious experience occurs. The depressed …

The notion of a global state (or level) of consciousness is an increasingly important construct
in the science of consciousness. However, exactly what a global state of consciousness is …

Abstract Serotonergic (or “classic”) psychedelics have struck many researchers as raising
significant philosophical questions that, until recently, were largely unexplored by academic …

Several promising approaches have been developed to represent conscious experience in
terms of mathematical spaces and structures. What is missing, however, is an explicit …

A recent development in the psychological and neuroscientific study of consciousness has
been the tendency to conceptualize consciousness as a multidimensional phenomenon …