Neuroscience is revealing a fascinating link between gratitude and generosity.

When you feel genuine love, appreciation, or compassion, whether for your partner, child, dog, or even a breathtaking sunset, your heart doesn’t just metaphorically “swell.” It produces oxytocin. It generates coherent electromagnetic rhythms that can be detected three feet beyond your body. It sends specific neural signals to your brain that... See more

good way to answer this question is in terms of your brain’s three operating systems. If you feel worried, tense, pushed on, or helpless, that triggers the avoiding harms system, so you’d be particularly helped by “resource experiences” related to this system, such as protection, safety, relaxation, strength, and agency. Sadness, disappointment,

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An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT).

1. IIT suggests that consciousness emerges when information inside a system (like the brain) is highly connected

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