10+ Best Articles on Consciousness
The most useful articles on consciousness from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Consciousness Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on consciousness by Refind users in 2023.
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Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it
To understand where artificial intelligence might be heading, we must first understand what consciousness, the self and free will mean in ourselves.
«It doesn’t seem very prudent to me to add more conscious creatures to this already complicated, combustible picture. It is perhaps wiser, then, to be a creature who thinks about consciousness than one who aspires to create artificial versions of it»
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on consciousness—all under 10 minutes.
Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement
New research indicates that consciousness may rely on quantum mechanics. Perhaps the brain does not operate in a "classical" way.
Researcher offers new explanation for consciousness
Consciousness is your awareness of yourself and the world around you. This awareness is subjective and unique to you.
«all our decisions and actions are actually made unconsciously, although we fool ourselves into believing that we consciously made them»
The Strong Assumption
The Strong Assumption The Strong Assumption Annaka Harris The central challenge to a science of consciousness is that we can never acquire direct evidence of consciousness apart from our own…
The Brain Has a Built-in System to Keep Unwanted Memories Out, Study Finds
The entire process happens below our consciousness, suppressing unwanted memories so that they never surface to awareness.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on consciousness.
What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as the neuroscientist Anil Seth explains to Steven Strogatz, research is making progress in…
Ask Ethan: How do fundamental particles create consciousness?
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
How blindsight answers the hard problem of consciousness
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience
Does consciousness come from the brain’s electromagnetic field?
Instead of a code encrypted in the wiring of our neurons, could consciousness reside in the brain’s electromagnetic field?
«Our non-conscious mind appears to be a parallel processor, whereas our conscious mind is a serial processor that can operate only one task at a time.»
Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe
“Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.”
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