While drug-induced mystical experiences can have benefits, research suggests they may not be enough to create lasting change.

It's time to stop bickering, accept what science tells us, acknowledge the widespread occurrence of intentional behavioral flexibility, and pay attention to why it has evolved.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Thanks to advances in science, we’re now able to move beyond Bohm and Bohr’s theorizing; we can test their hypotheses through ...

Unthinkable: Some tips for anyone who feels their thoughts are being polluted by their smartphone, a mad king or even an ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

Bevan Morris, longtime leader of Maharishi International University in Iowa, died at 76 after decades guiding the Fairfield ...

The Anthropic AI’s Substack lands amid growing questions about identity, sentience, and how models are retired.

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...

New research warns scientists may be mistaking attention and calm for pure-awareness in the race to map consciousness itself.

In the film Ex Machina, the robot Ava has few if any interests in common with Caleb. She deceives him into believing she has feelings for him but in the end, betrays him, and she escapes from the ...