consciousness

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Science
How Warmth Rewires the Brain

How Warmth Rewires the Brain
New neuroscience links the warmth of a hug and skin-to-skin contact to the brain’s interoceptive circuits, emotional regulation and a stronger sense of body ownership — with impli…
Physics
Does Physics Disprove Free Will?

Does Physics Disprove Free Will?
Physicists, philosophers and neuroscientists disagree: determinism, quantum uncertainty, chaos and emergence each change the free-will question. This article explains how modern p…
A.I
GTA Creator's Novel About Mind‑Hijacking AI

GTA Creator's Novel About Mind‑Hijacking AI
Dan Houser, co-creator of Grand Theft Auto, has published A Better Paradise — a near‑future novel about an AI game that slips into people's thoughts. The book arrives as real‑worl…
Science
Consciousness as a Fundamental Field

Consciousness as a Fundamental Field
A prominent physicist has proposed that consciousness is a basic field of the universe, a claim that reopens philosophical debates and poses hard scientific questions about testab…