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Do humans share one consciousness? This psychologist says yes.

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.

Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.

A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.

Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

Only about 10% of patients survive cardiac arrest. Of the ones who do, many have amazing stories to tell.

The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.

In a psychedelic state, the relationship between your “narrative” and “minimal” selves seems to transform in unique ways.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.

Depression might be similar to dreaming.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy utilizes a non-ordinary state of consciousness to heal.

If the “self” is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.

From consciousness to nothingness and beyond, these questions still baffle the brightest minds. Will they ever be solved?

The dying brain experiences a surge of electrical activity. Could this help explain the mysterious phenomena of near-death experiences?

Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.

How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.

Neural imaging has shown that the brain has “decided” what we’re going to do before we make a conscious choice — but is this even relevant to free will?

Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.

Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.

Your brain may notice fearful faces, even if you don’t consciously realize it.

Scientists can’t define spirituality. But we can study its healing effects, says this Columbia psychologist.

The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.

Can AI and animals coexist? Philosopher Peter Singer gives us a nuanced take on the issue.

Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that’s science fiction.