For more than a century, neuroscience has treated consciousness as something the brain manufactures, like a factory turning ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

Mehr explores the research and creation of lab grown 'brain organoids', as well as the significance and ethicality of such experiments.

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