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In earlier parenting days, my family often passed car-ride time by playing one-word story. Each passenger sequentially contributed a single word to an evolving story. While the Pulitzer committee has ...

"Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of ...

This post is Part I of a series. The field of consciousness studies has come of age. Prior to the 1990s, theories of consciousness were more of a philosophical pursuit than a serious scientific one.