By David Eagleman — 2011
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider.
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Few people have had as much influence on modern psychology as Carl Jung; he has coined terms such as extraversion and introversion, archetypes, anima and animus, shadow, and collective unconscious, among others.
Studies have shown that people synchronize heart rates and breathing when watching emotional films together. The same happens when romantic partners share a bed.
Coined in the sixteenth century by the Italian philosopher and proto-scientist Francesco Patrizi, whose work inspired Galileo, from the Greek pan (“all”) and psyche (“mind” or “spirit”), panpsychism is the idea that all matter is endowed with the capacity for subjective experience of...
The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness–which has important implications for our belief in free will and our approach to the study of the human mind.
Memory. I have it. You have it. And then we feel like we’re losing it. Losing it. With all our brain changes at midlife, are we really losing our minds?
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A weekly routine of yoga and meditation may strengthen thinking skills and help to stave off aging-related mental decline, according to a new study of older adults with early signs of memory problems.
Our unpublished 1994 interview takes on new meaning in the Trump Era and beyond.
The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.
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The term “unconscious” or “unconscious mind” is most closely associated with Freud and psychoanalysis, but the general notion predates Freud by hundreds if not thousands of years.