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Conscience vs. Conscious: What’s the Difference?

By Kendra Cherry — 2022

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.

Read on www.verywellmind.com

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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...

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2022
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How Your Brain Invents Morality

Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.

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Sigal Samuel
2019
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Developing a Conscience: Knowing the Difference Between Right and Wrong

There are various developmental theories that go into the tool kit that parents and educators utilize to help mold caring and ethically intact people, including those of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg.

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Edie Weinstein
2018
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How to Raise a Kid with a Conscience in the Digital Age

Nudge kids to be their best selves by encouraging them to consume positive, inspiring media and online content.

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Caroline Knorr
2018
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What Is Consciousness?

In order to be able to answer the question of whether productive obsessing is something to shun or to value, it would be good to know what consciousness is—not only in a biochemical sense but also in a way that does justice to our felt experience of individuality and instrumentality.

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Eric Maisel
2021
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Can lucid dreaming help us understand consciousness?

The ability to control our dreams is a skill that more of us are seeking to acquire for sheer pleasure. But if taken seriously, scientists believe it could unlock new secrets of the mind.

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David Robson
2021
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Why Do We Walk On By?

It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.

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Marc Ian Barasch
2006
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The Structure That Carries Consciousness

Many scientists and bodywork therapists believe consciousness is tangible and can be touched. The fascial system, a super network of connective tissue is the physical doorway we can use to enter into consciousness.

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Marisa Chadbourne
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How Weird Is Consciousness?

Scientists may not even be asking the right questions.

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Alison Gopnik
2010
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Brains Might Sync As People Interact—and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

Studies have shown that people synchronize heart rates and breathing when watching emotional films together. The same happens when romantic partners share a bed.

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Conor Feehly
2021
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