Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.

Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.

“Our conscious awareness is everything. And the fact that it's still so mysterious to scientists and to all of humanity, the fact that it's still one of the great unsolved mysteries makes it something that everyone can be excited about and that inspires awe in everyone.”

We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when […]

We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.

Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.

“Psychedelics crosscut so many interesting domains. They've been used for time immemorial by indigenous cultures. In our own Western cultural history, they really exploded on the scene in the 1960s, and were associated with radical changes to society.”

The technology might be much closer than you'd think.

These expert-recommended books reveal how big ideas can shape — and sometimes redefine — human progress.

Reflecting on the final moments she spent with her mother, and the weeks afterwards spent cataloging her life in objects and memories, Poet Laureate of the Ordinary Kelly Corrigan shares how important it is to attune, to behold, and to notice — even if it’s difficult or uncomfortable:

The brain is an “illusion factory.” Here’s what that means for our perception of time.

The hospital where Rainn Wilson’s wife and son nearly died became his own personal holy site. There, he discovered that the sacred can exist in places we least expect it. During his talk at A Night of Awe and Wonder, he explained how the awe we feel in moments of courage and love is moral beauty — and following it might be the start of our spiritual revolution.

“Consciousness is fundamental. It's a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.”

Panpsychist philosopher Philip Goff, PhD on mysticism and the future of faith.

Philosophy asks if free will is real. Neuroscience reveals why the answer is more complicated than we expected.

In this excerpt from "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin makes the case that neurons reveal how memory, meaning, and even consciousness emerge from the same biological roots in humans, sea slugs, and beyond.

Each of these stories rests on a foundation of great ideas that will scare you to death and make you think.

"One of the largest mitigating factors against getting traumatized is who is there for you at that particular time."

How can the brain — a piece of matter — love? Physics and chemistry explain the material world, but they can’t explain why it feels like something to be alive. This is the mystery of consciousness, according to these experts.

Neuroscientist Rachel Barr shares her favorite books on the brain and how they shaped her approach to the field.

Everything you experience is filtered through your brain, and everyone’s brain is different. Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains how understanding this can deepen your connection to the world around you.

Biologist Tyler Volk PhD, psychiatrist Bruce Greyson MD, and palliative care physician BJ Miller MD, reveal how confronting mortality can improve the way we live.

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“You can be aware of sadness from a point of view that is not merely sad, and you can be aware of fear from a point of view that's not merely afraid.”

A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.

A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.

"Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be."

The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.

5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.

A universal signature could make surgeries safer — and help reveal what holds consciousness together.