From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and ...

Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

This is Part 4 of a four-part series on What Actually Are Emotions? “Understanding the cognitive basis of emotional experience is a subset of the problem of understanding the cognitive foundations of ...

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of ...

A dancing humanoid robot gyrates to music at a fair in Beijing. - © AFP Pedro PARDO/File A dancing humanoid robot gyrates to music at a fair in Beijing. - © AFP ...

Consciousness remains unexplained despite advances in neuroscience Quantum theories propose that subatomic processes may influence awareness No single theory has yet unified brain activity with ...

He puts the word “conscience” in quote-marks: The subject then decides, on the basis of his experiences, what he considers tenable in matters of religion, and the subjective “conscience” becomes the ...

Is artificial intelligence secretly conscious? In today’s tech-driven world where AI models are evolving at breakneck speed, ...

A fellow Arsian suggested I post here asking whether you could enlighten me a little on our current understanding of consciousness. From what I understand it is an unsolved mystery but we may be ...