A program to which users attribute human characteristics can manipulate them much more easily.” –Andrzej Porębski, MD ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

A new study of neural oscillations during varying stages of consciousness shows that anesthesia doesn’t just knock us out—it ...

Michael Pollan's view of consciousness hygiene is criticized for reinforcing alienation and failing to address the underlying ...

It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

While researching a previous book, a mushroom trip in Michael Pollan’s garden left him curious about the boundaries of consciousness. His latest project A World Appears explores the mystery of human ...

In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

By measuring the magnetic fields of the brain, researchers found that different contemplative practices uniquely change how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Longevity guru Bryan Johnson has long had questions about the bounds of human consciousness. He says smoking a psychedelic found ...

From the vantage point of the Unified Theory Of Knowledge (UTOK), we can frame the root of many modern philosophical confusions via the "Enlightenment Gap." This refers to the fact that the ...