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States Of Consciousness
A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.
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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.
Unlikely Collaborators
Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.
"Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be."
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What happens when the boundaries of “you” disappear? James Fadiman, PhD, Jamie Wheal, and Matthew Johnson, PhD explore how supported experiences with psychoactive drugs can dissolve identity and reveal a deeper reality.
Unlikely Collaborators
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"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."
"We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive."
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"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
If the "self" is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.
John Templeton Foundation
Only about 10% of patients survive cardiac arrest. Of the ones who do, many have amazing stories to tell.
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Do humans share one consciousness? This psychologist says yes.
There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.
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From DMT elves, to God, to the figures in our dreams — why are humans so obsessed with the supernatural?
A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
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You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’
A toxicological study shows that the victims of human sacrifice consumed coca leaves and ayahuasca before they were killed, but not for reasons we originally thought.
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Are sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll actually good for you?