Politicians constantly evade the truth. Why can they get away with it? According to a recent study conducted at Harvard University, it’s because people have such terrible attention spans. Behavioural scientist Todd Rogers of the Harvard Kennedy School and Michael […]
New Science/Consciousness
Consciousness: The Beginning & the End
Nothing is more certain than the fact that we are conscious. And yet there is something very puzzling, even uncanny, about being conscious; and the learned talk of the mystery of consciousness. The mystery centres around the origin of consciousness; […]
Search for the Mind of God
From New Dawn 127 (Jul-Aug 2011) Stephen Hawking famously ended his 1988 bestseller A Brief History of Time with the statement that, if and when physics finds its long-sought grand unified field theory “we would know the mind of God.”1 […]
A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
From New Dawn 139 (Jul-Aug 2013) This year [2013] saw the 30th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential writers of all time, the iconic Philip K. Dick. Although virtually unknown outside of science fiction circles, during […]
Extended Minds: The Mental Fields Within & Beyond Our Brains
From New Dawn 140 (Sept-Oct 2013) We have been brought up to believe that our minds are inside our heads, that mental activity is nothing but brain activity. Instead, I suggest that our minds extend far beyond our brains; they […]