Which Animals Know They Exist?
Conscious experience, self-awareness and why one mirror test cannot rank every species.
Read investigation →Investigations
Can a Patient Be Conscious Without Responding?
EEG and fMRI can reveal command-following in some patients who appear behaviourally unresponsive.
Read investigation →What Are Dreams For?
Sleep has established roles in memory and brain restoration, but dream narratives have no single proven universal function.
Read investigation →Can Memories Be Rewritten?
Reactivated memories can become plastic and be updated, but science cannot precisely erase or replace complex autobiographical memories.
Read investigation →What Does Anaesthesia Reveal About Consciousness?
Anaesthesia reveals state-dependent network changes linked to awareness, without identifying one universal consciousness switch.
Read investigation →Has Neuroscience Disproved Free Will?
Decision-making has unconscious precursors, but laboratory timing studies do not experimentally disprove every coherent concept of free will.
Read investigation →Questions in the research queue
What Is Consciousness?
Can Consciousness Be Measured Directly?
Near-Death Experiences
Could a Machine Become Conscious?
How Is the Self Constructed?
Altered States Without the Hype
Evidence rule
Neural activity, behaviour and subjective report answer different questions. SCRIBE does not treat a brain scan as a complete mind-reader, or the absence of movement as proof that experience is absent.