The entire universe may have an internal mind—or the whole idea of consciousness could be a sham. Here’s why scientists still ...
About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms poking out of dark soil, picked one of the brown caps, and examined its ...
A preprint paper submitted to arXiv on Jan. 22, 2026, ranks common chickens higher than leading AI systems on a new ...
The phenomenon of inattentional blindness seems to show you can see without the information crossing into your consciousness.
A double-blind, randomized trial has identified specific brainwave patterns that track with the mystical and ...
In the 10 minutes before the official start of class, Professor Anne Harrington ’82 somehow managed to cover descriptions of Gilbert Ryle’s classic “category mistake” critique of mind-body dualism, ...
Your consciousness can connect you with the entire universe, a groundbreaking study suggests. Experts from Wellesley College in Massachusetts claim that traditional connections in the brain cannot ...
Conscious experience is central to human life, yet the processes underlying its emergence remain among the most debated questions in behavioral ...
Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. And while scientists have long known that these different senses activate ...
Can we ever truly understand the experiences of animals? Many philosophers and scientists harbor skepticism, often asserting that we can never truly comprehend what goes on in an animal’s mind. For ...