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Consciousness
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
Anesthesia causes animals and humans to lose consciousness. A study found it has a similar effect on Venus flytraps.
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
Historical geniuses used the "creative nap" to give their minds a boost. Apparently, the "hypnagogic state" can help with problem solving.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
Our brains might be flooded with the hallucinogen DMT as we die, leading to vivid dreams.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
It’s not a question we know enough to know the answer to, but to dismiss the possibility is scientifically baseless. There’s one question that most of us ask at some […]
If you think you have problems today, be glad you’re not moving at the speed of light. Special relativity, even though it’s over 100 years old, is still one of the […]
A new podcast: a first-person account, by a scientist, of what it was like to live and experience totality for the first time. “I sometimes ask people, ‘Can you be aware […]