In a few months, this blog will turn 15 years of age. How time flies when one is thinking about consciousness and the brain! I think the 15-year mark is a good point at which to write a series of ...

To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

I think they’re both talking about the same thing: how there is what we have agreed is real existing in a state of constant tension with what we know to actually be real. We are insects driven by ...

Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

A bias is like a shortcut. It allows us to make preferential decisions based on lived experience. This isn’t just a nifty trick, it’s imperative to our survival. Without biases, the sheer volume of ...