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; […]
New Science/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 […]
The Fairytale of Materialism: How ‘Fundamentalists’ Hijacked Science
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 7 No 5 (Oct 2013) The theme of this special issue of New Dawn Magazine is important in more ways than meet the eye at first. The notion of forbidden ideas in science is […]