A new study addresses the question of whether psychedelics might change the attribution of consciousness to a range of living and nonliving things. Psychedelic drugs, like psilocybin, an ingredient ...

Does Addiction Recovery Require a Change in Consciousness? Source: © Ginasanders | Dreamstime.com The last ten days, I’ve been at conferences hosted by Yale ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...

Sitting on the patio during a drizzle, the wind suddenly picks up, the rain falls hard, and there’s a feeling of almost fury about the earth. Though gusts were spraying me occasionally, it wasn’t cold ...

During the 20th century, researchers pushed the frontiers of science further than ever before with great strides made in two very distinct fields. While physicists discovered the strange ...

This is one person’s experience of living with depression, as recounted in the psychologist Gail Hornstein’s book Agnes’s Jacket (2009). If you ask someone to describe what depression is like, they ...

In the 1990s Australian philosopher David Chalmers framed the challenge of distinguishing between the “easy” problems and the “hard” problem of consciousness. Easy problems involve explaining behavior ...