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The Cartesian notion of consciousness and the relation between the body and mind has been at the heart of modern Western thought, with Descartes positing consciousness as the one undeniable and certain fact of existence....

Daily Ecstasy News: Descartes posited consciousness as the undeniable fact; modern science dissolved observer-observed distance with unified field theory; Daniel Dennett

While Isaac Newton is universally regarded as the greatest physicist of all time, it is to the Pole Copernicus that we credit the rise of modern science.

Sensing a market with Christian evangelicals, Jordan Peterson is leaning into the Bible. The problem is, Peterson is not a Christian.

How the European Space Agency can help boost a US mission to Uranus. Also, dams are hobbling ambitious conservation efforts for the Yangtze River and lessons from the first pig-organ transplants into humans. How the European Space Agency can help boost a US mission to Uranus. Also, dams are hobbling ambitious conservation efforts for the Yangtze River and lessons from the first pig-organ transplants into humans.

Scientists are zeroing in on the parts of the brain that register our awareness of existing. But this physical explanation won’t be the whole story.

Dennett's classic story raises deep philosophical questions about identity and consciousness.

Educators need to focus on ways to encourage conversation instead of confrontation.

Self-knowing is a very different animal than self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the intellectual recognition of one’s patterns and tendencies from the past, whereas self-knowing is firmly grounded in the present.

Our perception of a soul or even vulnerability to events beyond our control can be explained without magic.