Focus: Explore consciousness and intelligence in connection with SETI research. The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your ...

The SETI Institute announced the short list for its new Cosmic Consciousness residency, part of the SETI Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program. In May 2024, the program invited writers and poets to submit ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

A peer-reviewed paper published in Frontiers in Psychology proposes that consciousness is not simply a byproduct of brain activity but instead acts as a top-down force that shapes neural processes.

The prevailing consensus in neuroscience is that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain and its metabolism. When the brain dies, the mind and consciousness of the being to whom that brain ...

Satyapal Sehgal occupies a distinctive space in contemporary Hindi literature as a poet of spiritual ecology and profound existential inquiry. His significance lies in his ability to deconstruct the ...

Let’s swing for the fences with this one, shall we? Some questions are timeless because they’re so fundamental that everyone ponders them at some point in life (often—for me at least—in the shower).