Death is the inescapable conclusion of life. But what happens after death is still a highly debated topic. Throw into the mix a heady combination of religious belief and scientific theories, and you ...

Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" I remember the Sunday—I was about ten or eleven years old—when I refused to go to the Children’s Service at the local Parish Church if a certain hymn was to ...

Science, with extraordinary achievements in the arena of knowledge and development, is still struggling to define consciousness. Modern scientific theories try to link consciousness to the brain's ...

Recent research from the University of Liège is offering new insight into that question, suggesting a deeper relationship between language and awareness than previously understood.

Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness, in which I argue that consciousness evolved to help animals navigate ...