Today’s theories don’t resemble Plato’s or Rene Descartes’ conceptions of the mind and soul as entities separate from the physical body, because it has become clear that consciousness depends on the ...

consciousness included, is really separate from the physical," Berent says. In the other thought experiment, Mary is a neuroscientist who knows everything about color and how the brain perceives ...

The seemingly trivial distinction between mind and brain has profound implications for modern science. The “hard problem of ...

This altered state of consciousness is a bit like what a group of researchers sought to study in a recent paper published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience, which peered into the brain's ...

The ganzfeld effect may cause an altered state of consciousness or extrasensory ... filled by this wall of color, it only takes a couple of minutes for your brain to start changing your perception.