“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

Tech mogul Elon Musk's recent philosophical post on the nature of reality has sparked widespread interest. His ventures like ...

More than half a billion people around the world have downloaded artificial-intelligence chatbot companion apps such as ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

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 ...

Source: Ben White| Unsplash Imagine being out on a clear summer day and feeling the warmth of the sun shining on your face. Or imagine the joy of being with a loved one, the thrill of riding a ...

How deep and wide are the roots of our experience? What if experience is so much deeper, broader, and more varied than we once thought? How often has reality not been as it appears to us, as what we ...

A seven-year wait is over for fans of the fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon, as Seacoast author Dan Brown has ...

Thousands of near-death experiences show consistent patterns, including out-of-body awareness and feelings of peace. New brain studies reveal organized neural activity during cardiac arrest, matching ...

Author Dan Brown is known for storylines that delve into myth and conspiracy theories. His new book — The Secret of Secrets — tackles the ultimate mystery: human consciousness.