consciousness

Scientists widely agree that organoids are not capable of consciousness or other higher-order brain functions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

What elevates Mellencamp’s song is the dual consciousness in his raspy vocal: the nagging belief in a dream that, like everything else, “just kind of came and went.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Instead, the findings suggest that very different experiences may sometimes engage overlapping brain processes associated with altered states of consciousness.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

The dangers of lithium-ion batteries really broke into the public consciousness following a series of phone-related fires about a decade ago.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Those dreams flitted through his consciousness like the taste of a forgotten food.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Their brains have been surgically altered, dividing their work life and home life into separate consciousnesses which are described by the company as “innies” and “outies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

In this inventively loopy sci-fi thriller, employees at that shadowy firm undergo a brain procedure that splits their work and home selves into two separate consciousnesses.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

According to her, the woman portrayed as a trickster "sums up our modern fragmented, hyphenated identities and multiple consciousnesses".

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022

In the other central conceit of “Pure Colour,” Mira and her father are paired as dual consciousnesses in a leaf, which functions as an extended metaphor for the interconnected entrapment of grief.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

The fever of madness was upon them, and numbed their wills so that they could not reach beneath the surface of their consciousnesses to find words for their emotions.

From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White