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The startle reflex evolved to protect the body, but it also reveals your thoughts and feelings.
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A rare condition called hemispatial neglect reveals the invisible seams in human consciousness.
China Stringer Network / Reuters Why You Should Believe in the Digital Afterlife
A professor of neuroscience says it will one day be possible to live on in a computer after death.
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A neuroscientist on how we came to be aware of ourselves
Chris Helgren / Reuters How Consciousness Explains Ventriloquists and Religion
The brain projects its own qualities onto the world around it—for better or worse.
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Your Brain Sees Things That You Don't
Understanding the difference between awareness and attention might be the key to unlocking the mystery of human consciousness.
Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters Most Popular Theories of Consciousness Are Worse Than Wrong
They play to our intuitions, but don’t actually explain anything.
Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How Phantom Limbs Explain Consciousness
The brain’s model of the body can tell us a lot about its model of attention.
Suhaib Salem / Reuters Consciousness Is Not Mysterious
It’s just the brain describing itself—to itself.
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