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Where in the Brain Does the Mind Reside?

A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain. Read More ›
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The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong

He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres. Read More ›
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Big Human Brain from…Just Two Genes?

The genes, unique to humans, spurred brain growth when introduced in mice and chimpanzee stem cells. Read More ›
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Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts

The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds. Read More ›
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Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›
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The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Read More ›
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How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?

The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue. Read More ›
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Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking

Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan. Read More ›
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Neurosurgeon and Neuropsychologist Agree: The Brain Is Not the Mind

"I had to understand what people were and what the mind was in order to make sense of neuroscience! And I still find that." Read More ›
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Where and What Is Consciousness?

If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Read More ›

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