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 ...

This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence program. The human species has long grappled with the question of what makes ...

Experts believe entangling a brain with a quantum computer could finally reveal where consciousness comes from.

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 ...

Quantum consciousness was a popular theory back in the day based on the principles: 1) We don't really understand consciousness, and 2) we don't really understand quantum mechanics. Equating two ...

Those who have experimented with psychedelics often describe a sensation of connectedness with objects around them, things like rocks, trees, or rivers. Sometimes the “connectedness” is more literal, ...

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 ...

“A theory of consciousness that cannot account for emotions is hardly a theory of consciousness.”—Joseph LeDoux 1 This is Part 4 of a four-part series on What Actually Are Emotions? Antonio Damasio’s ...