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Consciousness
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
John Templeton Foundation
The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a "reality threshold" that is lower than it should be.
How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.
If you look into a mirror, you'll notice that left-and-right are reversed, but up-and-down is preserved. The reason isn't what you think.
From consciousness to nothingness and beyond, these questions still baffle the brightest minds. Will they ever be solved?
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This is not your average dream interpreter. Nightmares, as explained by a neuroscientist.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy utilizes a non-ordinary state of consciousness to heal.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.
Depression might be similar to dreaming.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
"I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences."
John Templeton Foundation
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
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Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
Meditators invert the relationship between the layers of self-processing.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
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Dr. Carl Hart breaks taboos surrounding drug use in America.
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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
