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Phenomenology
A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.
Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.
Earth orbits the Sun while spinning on its tilted axis, with two annual occasions marking that maximal tilt. That's where solstices arise.
5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.
A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.
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"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"
With the discovery of Porphyrion, we've now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.
By focusing on the role of human experience, we may uncover new insights on the fundamental structure of reality.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
The midwest is particularly filled with them.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
Only about 10% of patients survive cardiac arrest. Of the ones who do, many have amazing stories to tell.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don't affect humans in any way.
Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?
The idea is to study the thing itself — be it a work of literature, death, family, a car, a vaccine, or the hospital — without preconceived notions, trendy easy answers, or dogma imposed on it.
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Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
Tasting sounds and hearing colors.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
John Templeton Foundation
Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
When it comes to vetting people for friendship, body odor seems to be a decisive factor.
Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?
It didn't look like anything I'd seen before, but I'd be a great fool to consider "aliens" as a reasonable possibility.
Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.
And after years of mystery, we finally know where they come from. Here on Earth, thunderstorms and accompanying lightning strikes represent tremendous releases of energy. It was way back in 2011 […]
This year’s June solstice coincides with a new Moon and an annular solar eclipse. Here’s how rare it truly is. As the Earth orbits the Sun, it rotates on its axis. […]
Did you experience totality? I did, for the first time. And it was, even as a well-prepared scientist, beyond anything I expected. “All that is nowAll that is goneAll that’s […]
For the central 8,000 light years, there are practically no tracers of new stars. What gives? “This suggests a lack of Cepheids in the inner 2.5 kpc region of the Galactic […]