Elizabeth Dias is a very good writer, and if you can get behind the paywall at the New York Times, try to read her lengthy ...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research contends that developing scientific tests ...

While many contemporary philosophers take Thomas Nagel’s notion of “subjective experience” to be the main characteristic of consciousness, I argue, drawing on Sufism and Islamic philosophy, that ...

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This is Part 4 of a four-part series on What Actually Are Emotions? “Understanding the cognitive basis of emotional experience is a subset of the problem of understanding the cognitive foundations of ...

What is happening in the brain when you are under hypnosis?You may have wondered about this at least once.You close your eyes ...

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...