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“Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?”

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

“We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive.”

Do humans share one consciousness? This psychologist says yes.

Mark Weinstein outlines a new path for social media that protects, respects, and empowers the regular users.

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

The Malling-Hansen writing ball, with its potential and limitations, redefined Nietzsche’s philosophical and creative expression.

An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, derails the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability.

James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.

A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.

Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.

Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.

While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?

Only about 10% of patients survive cardiac arrest. Of the ones who do, many have amazing stories to tell.

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

In a psychedelic state, the relationship between your “narrative” and “minimal” selves seems to transform in unique ways.

The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.

“Many people get stuck in feeling responsible for their psychological state, and there’s a way in which simply being with whatever uncomfortable emotions rather than believing that you are controlling them can be extremely beneficial for psychological wellbeing.”

Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.

Depression might be similar to dreaming.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy utilizes a non-ordinary state of consciousness to heal.