What Is Consciousness?
From Galileo’s thermometer to EEG brain waves — learn how science tackles concepts it can’t yet fully explain, and what that means for understanding your own mind.
Mini-Course #3 examines how science defines the undefinable. 🔬
Here’s a question that has stumped philosophers, scientists, and curious minds for centuries: What IS consciousness? If you just found yourself reaching for a definition and coming up slightly short — welcome to the club. In science, that’s perfectly normal.
The greatest concepts — heat, gravity, life itself — were measured and used long before they were ever formally defined. Consciousness is no different.
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In science, how do we begin to define a difficult concept like consciousness?
Many people ask for a definition of consciousness. Or they simply tell us that nobody knows what it is, so it must be impossible to understand. But this is a misunderstanding of the way empirical science works. In Mini-Course #3, Psychobiologist Bernard Baars, Neuroscientist Alea Skwara, and Systems Specialist Ilian Daskalov examine how science builds its way toward understanding.