Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one common pattern for handling information. Each region of the cortex contains ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

Here is recorded version of this blog, if you prefer to listen to it: Common Brushtail Possum Source: Public Domain It is 3 a.m., and I am awake in Australia, my body stubbornly refusing to adjust to ...

(Deshmukh VD. Consciousness, Awareness, and Presence: A Neurobiological Perspective. Int J Yoga. 2022 May-Aug;15 (2):144-149. doi: 10.4103/ijoy.ijoy_77_22. Epub 2022 Sep 5. PMID: 36329768; PMCID: ...

From the vantage point of the Unified Theory Of Knowledge (UTOK), we can frame the root of many modern philosophical confusions via the "Enlightenment Gap." This refers to the fact that the ...

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 ...