The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

If we put aside the self-awareness standard—and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happ...

Neurons are highly diverse and sophisticated processors that collect, process and broadcast data via synapses, or contact points with oth...

We are embedded in the mental world of others just as we are embedded in the physical world. What we are currently doing and thinking is mo...

The problem of consciousness confronts us only when we begin to comprehend how we could dispense with it. For we could think, feel, will, ...

The idea that gods and spirits got their start as a supernatural version of people encounters one obvious objection: In hunter-gatherer soci...

The moon is reflected on the river a few feet away, A lantern shines in the night near [midnight]. On the sand, egrets sleep, peacefully cur...

"These mirror-neuron experiments are showing that, through and through, the brain is a dynamic system not only interacting with your sk...

Yes, the differences between Man and other animals are less than philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Nagel supposed, says Mark Vernon [1]...

The flawed genius of language, the premier instrument of our collectivized consciousness, is to give us the ability to encompass in a virtua...

Some old-timers, men who had become famous for their powers and skills, had been great dreamers. Hunters and dreamers. They did not hunt...

'Consciousness signature' discovered spanning the [human] brain. A C Grayling recalls of John Locke's argument that a pers...

Some day, perhaps, my biological colleagues will be using [computers] to simulate many processes including the chemical complexities within ...

It's long been observed that, as Michael Brooks puts it [1], human brains effortlessly conjure up an imaginary world of spirits, gods an...

When Ahla comes home in the evening after feeding, she will go...through a door to the lambs' enclosure. From here, she can only hear th...

[It] is hard to say what is instinct in animals & what is reason, in precisely the same way [it] is not possible to say what [is] habitu...

Conscious Entities puzzles towards a state of complete confusion: ...[Let us concede for a moment that] yes, OK, all that dust does have me...

Our gregarious great ape cousins — chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gorillas — along with dolphins and Asian elephants, have passed the ...