Is Our Experience of “Now” Actually a Half Second Delayed?
Yes. Our conscious experience of “now” is indeed delayed by approximately half a second from actual physical events. This phenomenon, often referred to as the...
Research Shows Fitness Beats Reality in Perception
Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine, has put forth a provocative theory about the nature of human perception. He suggests that evolution...
Scientists Find Molecular Glue of Long-Term Memories, Erase Old Memories
Recent research has unveiled a significant breakthrough in understanding how long-term memories are formed and maintained in the brain. A team of international scientists has...
Human Memory: How It Works and How to Edit It
Introduction A recent study from the University of Basel has uncovered that memories are not stored as singular entities but rather as multiple parallel “copies”...
Healing Moral Injury, a Real and Invisible Epidemic
In the early 2020s, moral injury emerged as one of the explanations for the wave of employee resignations across industries. Moral injury occurs when an...
Neurobiological Processes for Self-Awareness Identified
The minimum neurobiological processes for self-awareness identified in the search results are: 1. Interoceptive processing: Interoceptive information, particularly concerning physiological states and bodily actions,...
Intelligent Goal Setting, Sorting Your Priorities
This is a reminder to pause and take stock of your current long term objectives. What do you want to accomplish? Are your...
A Close Encounter of the Solar Kind (Video)
Last night, on March 17th, 2024, appropriately a Sunday, I experienced one of the most amazing natural light shows I have ever seen. This...
24-Hour Science Fiction Channel
Welcome to the science fiction channel. It will play selected science fiction videos from YouTube back to back. Click play, maximize the screen, and relax...
Belief and the Brain’s ‘God spot’
As a neurotic New Yorker pondering the mysteries of the universe, let me tell you about this fascinating study that claims our brains are...