By Michael Graziano — 2019
It may be some way off, but mind uploading, the digital duplication of your mental essence, could expand human experience into a virtual afterlife.
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Taken for granted in Western culture for more than a hundred years, the dualistic view of the universe—the split between mind and matter, body and spirit, faith and reason, essentially between science and spirituality—is now being fundamentally questioned by Western science and religion alike.
It may be that the best way to understand the world is not through science or spirituality alone – but through an approach which combines them both.
Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.
I just spent a week at a symposium on the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. The mind-body problem--which encompasses consciousness, free will and the meaning of life--concerns who we really are.
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The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
Spirituality, physical and mental health are often thought of as three separate tracks in a person's life. This six-part series aims to begin stitching them together, along with therapy, to reveal the critical areas where they influence each other.
In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.
Daniel Goleman reports on the Dalai Lama and the dialog between science and Buddhism, especially on how neuroscientists are measuring the effects of meditation.
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.