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Cognitive Neuroscience
Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.
In this preview, the Stanford professor muses on how emergence, arriving at complex patterns from simple parts, explains AI, brains, and life itself.
A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.
Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.
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.
One of the toughest vocational exams in the world requires candidates to memorize 25,000 streets in an area five times the size of Manhattan.
Elite athletes train their “quiet eye.” What happens if the rest of us do the same?
The Stoic philosopher argued that most of life is outside our control — but the little we do control defines who we are.
Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
By tracking brain activity as primates move freely in the wild, neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our own minds.
As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
The technology might be much closer than you'd think.
Metacognition — the ability to think about your thinking — can help you learn faster and make better decisions.
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.
In “Warhead,” neuroscientist and national security adviser Nicholas Wright explains how the brain navigates warfare and why it is our ultimate weapon (and instrument for peace).
A preview of the latest novel by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author.
You may actually be on the same wavelength.
A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
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.
A universal signature could make surgeries safer — and help reveal what holds consciousness together.
These expert-recommended books try to answer the questions of consciousness, from its fundamental nature to its role in human experience and the natural world.
"For many people, the idea that consciousness is a set of tricks is offensive," the late philosopher told Big Think in 2012. "I think that's a prime mistake."
In "The Microbiome Master Key," Brett and Jessica Finlay argue that we need to stop waging war on all germs and start working with the microbes that make us who we are.
Evolution may have built our brains, but it didn't build them to find truth.