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Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise

By Erica Goode — 2016

Hypnosis has become a common medical tool, used to reduce pain, help people stop smoking and cure them of phobias. But scientists have long argued about whether the hypnotic “trance” is a separate neurophysiological state or simply a product of a hypnotized person’s expectations.

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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (The MIT Press)

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Koch argues that programmable computers will not have consciousness.

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Christof Koch
2025
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Understanding the Brain: From Cells to Behavior to Cognition

An examination of what makes us human and unique among all creatures―our brains. No reader curious about our “little grey cells” will want to pass up Harvard neuroscientist John E. Dowling’s brief introduction to the brain.

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John E. Dowling
2025
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Out-of-Body Experiences, Consciousness, and Cognitive Neuroprosthetics: Olaf Blanke at TEDxCHUV

"What is a conscious self ? What exactly makes an experience a subjective phenomenon ? Starting with the neurology of out-of-body experiences and the breakdown of bodily mechanisms of self-consciousness, this talk presents novel neuroscience data on self-consciousness and subjectivity in healthy...

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2012
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Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.

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Edward Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson
2009
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Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds

Is the mind an ephemeral side effect of the brain’s physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified them? How does consciousness happen? Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions...

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The Dalai Lama, Zara Houshmand (editor), Robert B. Livingston (editor), B. Alan Wallace (editor)
2018
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The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science, and Experience

Traces historical and modern scientific efforts to investigate and understand the supernatural world and psychic experiences and surveys contemporary theories, experiences, and personalities relating to parapsychology.

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Jeffrey Mishlove
1975
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Is There Life After Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA

Does some aspect of our personality survive bodily death? Long a philosophical and theological question, in the 20th century this became the subject of scientific research.

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2017
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality.

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Michio Kaku
2015
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