For many decades, psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical scientists have described two separate components of the human ...

The entire universe may have an internal mind—or the whole idea of consciousness could be a sham. Here’s why scientists still ...

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of ...

As I sit here pondering what to write, what is it, exactly, that is doing the pondering? Where do the thoughts come from? How does the three-pound mass of grey matter that is my brain give rise to the ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

Yes: Consciousness is totally dependent on the brain and comes out from it. Dynamics of the brain create awareness. The brain is the conscious mind. No: Mind and body are distinctly different; ...

The Carl Jung active imagination method is a reflective and creative practice that seeks to connect the conscious mind, what ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan has written ...