"Consciousness" Blogs & Blog Posts

Everyone is freaking out because the ChatGPT clone hit on a journalist and said it wanted to be alive. But the hysteria is missing the real menace.

You can be forgiven for not understanding human behavior very well. People are complicated, and it’s hard to understand why we do what we do, especially since the answer is likely due to a trick our minds are playing on us. Simply eliminating the v...

Days are officially getting longer, but we still have a lot of the dark, winter season to go. And while there’s nothing we can do about the sun setting so early, we can maximize the amount of natural light our homes get when the sun is out during t...

Feeling our feelings—contrary to long-held popular opinion that it is somehow weak—is remarkably hard work. Which is why we engage in frequent avoidance techniques so we don’t have to feel them: drinking, binge-eating, gambling, and staying exc...

If you’ve ever felt a rush of intense emotion—whether a positive one, such as a surge of happiness, or a negative one, like a rush of anger—then you’ve probably also experienced the crash that comes when those emotions abate. Although we usua...

This video, Meditation without meditating' might be possible. Can it also be made ethical?, poses some big questions about a new technology that could induce a meditative state in the brain and potentially lead to enlightenment. Is it ethical to...

A recent study reveals that color can be a big factor in resale value of a car—with a three-year depreciation rate that can vary 25% between colors. What’s most surprising is that oddball colors, like yellow or orange, actually do better overall...