28 April 2023
Computer simulations of a human brain under the influence of LSD show that entropy increases the most in regions responsible for processing vision and integrating sensory information
8 February 2023
By analysing brain scans of asleep and awake people, researchers have found that the amount of entropy our brains produce varies with consciousness
11 December 2019
Most of us are convinced that we're coherent individuals who are continuous in time. There's just one problem with this sense of self – it can’t exist
2 December 2019
Can ancient views about the mind be reconciled with modern neuroscience? Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten and neuroscientist Ash Ranpura discuss
18 September 2019
Far from being a mystical “ghost in the machine”, consciousness evolved as a practical mental tool and we could engineer it in a robot using these simple guidelines
5 June 2019
The first studies of people with hyperphantasia – hyper-vivid mental imagery – are revealing how our imaginations shape the world we perceive and make us who we are
7 November 2018
Psychedelic drugs are a gateway to an alternative reality. Neuroscientist Chris Timmermann gives them to volunteers and then scans their brains
25 August 2018
When meditators take deep breaths through their nose it causes nerves in their nasal passages to fire more slowly, and brainwaves follow suit
26 July 2017
Some people see time, others feel like impostors. Their unusual brains have much to tell us about our sense of self, finds V.S. Ramachandran
