The minds of plants
Laura Ruggles writes: At first glance, the Cornish mallow (Lavatera cretica) is little more than an unprepossessing weed. It has pinkish flowers and broad, flat leaves that track sunlight throughout...
View ArticleConsciousness began when the gods stopped speaking
Veronique Greenwood writes: Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of whom...
View ArticleCrawick Multiverse: A former opencast coal mine transformed into a cosmic...
Crawick Multiverse Philip Ball writes: When work began in 2012, the excavations unearthed thousands of boulders half-buried in the ground. [Charles] Jencks used them to create a panorama of standing...
View ArticleStories about our deepest values activate brain region once thought to be its...
University of Southern California: Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you’d never compromise for any reason – such as “I’d...
View ArticleWhy have we taken so long to catch up with animal consciousness?
Brandon Keim writes: I met my first semipalmated sandpiper in a crook of Jamaica Bay, an overlooked shore strewn with broken bottles and religious offerings at the edge of New York City. I didn’t know...
View ArticleOctopus research shows that consciousness isn’t what makes humans special
Olivia Goldhill writes: Whether or not octopuses should be viewed as charming or terrifying very much depends on your personal perspective. But it’s hard to deny their intelligence. Octopuses can...
View ArticleStories about our deepest values activate brain region once thought to be its...
University of Southern California: Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you’d never compromise for any reason – such as “I’d...
View ArticleConsciousness is not a thing
Karl Friston writes: I have a confession. As a physicist and psychiatrist, I find it difficult to engage with conversations about consciousness. My biggest gripe is that the philosophers and cognitive...
View ArticleRoger Penrose on why consciousness does not compute
Steve Paulson writes: Once you start poking around in the muck of consciousness studies, you will soon encounter the specter of Sir Roger Penrose, the renowned Oxford physicist with an audacious—and...
View ArticleMountains of the mind: ‘I’ve become part of the landscape and it’s become...
Kevin Rushby writes: We begin in darkness and head up towards the light. It is that time just before the dawn when it’s neither day nor night. Down near Lake Coniston, I can hear an owl and a curlew...
View ArticleCrawick Multiverse: A former opencast coal mine transformed into a cosmic...
Crawick Multiverse Philip Ball writes: When work began in 2012, the excavations unearthed thousands of boulders half-buried in the ground. [Charles] Jencks used them to create a panorama of standing...
View ArticleStories about our deepest values activate brain region once thought to be its...
University of Southern California: Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you’d never compromise for any reason – such as “I’d...
View ArticleOld and new: How the brain evokes a sense of familiarity
Science News reports: It’s happened to all of us at one time or another: You’re walking through a crowd, and suddenly a face seems incredibly familiar — so much so that you do a double-take. Who is...
View ArticleOur moral identity makes us who we are
Nina Strohminger writes: e morning after her accident, a woman I’ll call Kate awoke in a daze. She looked at the man next to her in bed. He resembled her husband, with the same coppery beard and...
View ArticleMice feel each other’s pain
Science magazine reports: To most people, the phrase “I feel your pain” is just an expression of sympathy. But it’s also a real biological phenomenon, a new study in rodents suggests. Healthy mice...
View ArticleScience shows the richer you get, the less you pay attention to other people
Lila MacLellan writes: No one can pay attention to everything they encounter. We simply do not have enough time or mental capacity for it. Most of us, though, do make an effort to acknowledge our...
View ArticleCan great apes read your mind?
By Christopher Krupenye, Max Planck Institute One of the things that defines humans most is our ability to read others’ minds – that is, to make inferences about what others are thinking. To build or...
View ArticleMagpies challenge bird-brain myth
GrrlScientist writes: Birds have been disparaged publicly as “bird brains” for so long that most people have lost the ability to view them as intelligent and sentient beings. However, a group of...
View ArticleWhatever you think, you don’t necessarily know your own mind
Keith Frankish writes: Do you think racial stereotypes are false? Are you sure? I’m not asking if you’re sure whether or not the stereotypes are false, but if you’re sure whether or not you think that...
View ArticleThe void of the float tank stops time, strips ego and unleashes the mind
M M Owen writes: The floatation tank was invented in 1954. Amid debates over whether consciousness was a purely reactive phenomenon or generated by resources of its own making in the mind, the...
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