The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and 2017 in English or Italian. Together, they represent 29 different types of ...

A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.

History is littered with “wild” ideas that experts once mocked, only to embrace them later when evidence piled up. Nowhere is that reversal more dramatic than in medicine, where supernatural and moral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death is one of the few questions science approaches with both rigor and humility. While it can’t speak to meaning or purpose, it ...

This certificate program is not currently admitting new students. Drexel University's Post-Bachelor's Certificate Program in Computer Science Theory and Practice in the College of Computing and ...

For decades, scientists, philosophers and science fiction writers have been fascinated by the idea of parallel universes — realms that may exist beyond our own, each potentially with its own version ...

Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head ...

A viral conspiracy theory suggesting that the Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds in August this year has left people ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

A letter, signed by 124 scholars and posted online last week, has caused an uproar in the consciousness research community. It claims that a prominent theory describing what makes someone or something ...