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Consciousness

Douglas Hofstadter and Godel, Escher, Bach

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: A daunting but captivating look at consciousness 

Douglas Hofstadter’s weighty tome, an exploration of mathematics, music and the mind, runs to almost 800 pages – but is worth the effort, finds Gerardo Bandera

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Physics

Can consciousness be quantum? We may now have an answer

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Our brains have their first thoughts unexpectedly early in life

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Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?

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Michael Pollan: ‘Consciousness is really under siege’

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EAF952 the end of the road where a road dead ends into the Salton Sea with a sign and barrier

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Want to live forever? There are major questions to confront, first 

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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

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Can Michael Pollan crack the problem of consciousness in his new book?

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Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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What we’re learning about consciousness from master meditators’ brains

Neuroscientist Matthew Sacchet is revealing how mastering meditation can not only enable transcendental states of bliss, but also reshape how we experience pain and emotion

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Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

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What 350 different theories of consciousness reveal about reality

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Life

Why you should assume that even the simplest animals are conscious

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Science is a Pandora’s box – but we should open it anyway

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