When your mind goes blank, visual stimuli never reaches awareness. Study mapped the unique brain patterns behind these mental ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

Most people wouldn’t bat an eyelid if notable psychologists (e.g., Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow) or economists (e.g., Thaler and Sunstein, authors of Nudge: Improving Decisions about ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

HOW WOULD YOU REACT TO THE THOUGHT that the very chair you’re sitting in is made up of tiny particles that harness some type of rudimentary experience? Actually, how would you feel if we told you that ...

There has never been a better time to reach a state of higher consciousness than now. On the surface this seems like a paradox. Modern secular society is far removed from the pursuit of higher ...

We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved and rational beings who think, feel, and act in ways that are intentional and reasonable. We hold this perception because it enables us to believe that ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Dive deeper into the mysteries of your own existence with this one-day masterclass exploring the forefront of research on the brain and consciousness. Join leading neuroscientists and philosophers as ...