What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

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You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a ...

Discover how search theory illuminates market frictions, affecting employment, pricing, and transactions. Learn its applications across different economic contexts.

Ethnobotanist and psychedelics advocate, Terence McKenna, wrote a book called Food of the Gods, which is an exploration of humans’ symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals—now and in ...

"Where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is the future of the human race?" Such questions are at the heart of ...

If you have ever missed that train or that plane, it might be an inconvenient headache. Or it could actually be the setback you needed in your day, according to the “burnt toast theory.” Burnt toast ...

Understanding the biology behind consciousness (or self-awareness) is considered by some to be the final frontier of science. And over the last decade, a fledgling community of “consciousness ...

As humans continue to search for life in space, some experts speculate the so-called Great Filter theory lies behind why nobody is responding to our call. Civilisations likely destroy themselves ...

Coffee cools, buildings crumble, eggs break and stars fizzle out in a universe that seems destined to degrade into a state of uniform drabness known as thermal equilibrium. The astronomer-philosopher ...