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What in the World Is Consciousness?

By Anil Seth — 2018

Our perception of the world around us, and ourselves within it, are ‘controlled hallucinations’ that the brain uses to help keep itself alive

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How Are The Mind & The Brain Different? A Neuroscientist Explains

So what exactly is the difference between the mind and the brain? Well, the mind is separate, yet inseparable from, the brain. The mind uses the brain, and the brain responds to the mind.

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An Introduction to Astral Projection

Have you ever had the feeling of your mind being outside your body—maybe looking down, or up, or across the room at yourself? About 10 percent of people report having had an out-of-body experience at least once.

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How Will Virtual Reality Change Your Mind’s Consciousness?

You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?

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Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics

The question is no longer whether quantum theory is correct, but what it means.

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Currents of Consciousness, with Dr. Amit Goswami

Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.

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Can Consciousness be Explained by Quantum Physics? My Research Takes Us a Step Closer to Finding Out

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. If quantum measurements are one day taken from the human brain, they could be compared against our results to definitely decide whether consciousness is a classical or a quantum phenomenon.

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Scientists Show How LSD Blows Open the Doors of Perception

The drug lowers brain barriers, allowing distant regions to talk and thoughts to flow more freely.

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Conscience vs. Conscious: What’s the Difference?

When thinking about these two concepts, just remember that conscious means to be awake and aware while conscience refers to your inner sense of right and wrong.

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How We All Could Benefit from Synaesthesia

Developing the mysterious condition in the 96% of people who do not have it may help to improve learning skills, aid recovery from brain injury and guard against mental decline in old age

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Is Synesthesia a Brain Disorder?

In a provocative review paper, French neuroscientists Jean-Michel Hupé and Michel Dojat question the assumption that synesthesia is a neurological disorder.

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