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Cracking consciousness will never be easy but we are making strides

A new way to understand where consciousness comes from and novel insights into subjective thought show that the hard problem of consciousness is worth persevering with

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Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how they compare to others’

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Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how they compare to others’

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Brain scans are putting a major theory of consciousness to the test

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Brain scans are putting a major theory of consciousness to the test

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Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, PhD - Muslim: https://www.gtu.edu/faculty/kamal-abu-shamsieh Jaime Clark-Soles - Christian Baptist Rabbi Zac Kamenetz - Jewish, founded Shefa: https://www.shefaflow.org Don Lattin - moderator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lattin A panel discussion at Psychedelic Science 2023, a conference held in Denver, Colorado in June 2023

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Religious leaders given psilocybin say they "felt God"

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How does consciousness arise? A 25-year-old bet has now been decided

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The Human Mind review: Ambitious, up-to-the-minute guide to the mind

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The Human Mind review: Ambitious, up-to-the-minute guide to the mind

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Why the mind-body connection is vital to understanding consciousness

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Emergence: The mysterious concept that holds the key to consciousness

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Psychedelics may increase entropy in the brain's vision centre

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Your brain produces more entropy while you are awake

By analysing brain scans of asleep and awake people, researchers have found that the amount of entropy our brains produce varies with consciousness

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Will 2023 be the year we finally understand consciousness?

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Roger Penrose: Communicating with future universes

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Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics"

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