Consciousness – The Conversation

There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.

Dogs and infants may not be able to tell us what they’re thinking, but we are developing the tools that will help us find out.

Science has done many things that seem miraculous. Why not transfer your consciousness to a machine?

The point of mindfulness is not to be more productive at work or just to relax − it is inner transformation.

When it comes to consciousness, theories are like toothbrushes. Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.

Kashmir’s history as a center of learning and the arts for Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims offers another way of understanding the region – one shaped by centuries of religious coexistence.

Brains scans show a signature linked to a dissolved separation between the self and the world.

When we’re awake, our imaginations are quite different. But what about our dreams?

Anthropic says there is something lurking inside Claude that looks a lot like the ‘global workspace’ one influential theory of consciousness depends on.

Many artists and scientists have had breakthrough while in this drowsy state between sleep and waking.

Traditional Chinese medicine sees consciousness as an attribute similar to health or beauty, not as a single brain function.

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.

The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.

AI developers are starting to talk about ‘welfare’ and ‘spirituality’, raising old questions about the inner lives of machines.

In A World Appears, Michael Pollan wonders if the search for consciousness might be a socially (and scientifically) acceptable proxy for the search for the soul.