It matters how we think of consciousness and the cosmos. Every model of the natural world carries implications not only for how we understand ourselves but also for how we organize ourselves socially and morally.

Put a bit differently, our conclusions are really a function of our exclusions. What we think the stuff on the table means is mostly a function of what we have taken off that table.

Sometimes one can best understand an idea by looking at those who reject it.

More radically still, we will have to become the mirror mirroring us. We will have to move from third-person observation to first-person awareness. For this, it is useful to listen to those who have been flipped, and to take their collective witness as one possible key to where we ourselves might look now. What we need is a new way of knowing, a ne

The single big question that drives most of the modern philosophy of mind is this: “What is the relationship between mind and matter, and how is this relationship mediated or produced by the brain?” On the surface, this is a remarkably easy question to understand. We experience the material world “out there.” We experience ourselves as conscious be

It then amplified what I was feeling in a kind of sympathetic resonance…. It was as though I had tapped into the backbone of the universal pipeline of vibrating subjectivity. I could feel this ‘tone’ as a gentle but nonetheless strong, full, irresistible hum resonating everywhere.”23 He speculates that, “perhaps all things we see and feel, even we

Research on fundamentalist movements around the globe has shown that there have been two especially common career paths from which fundamentalist leaders have often emerged: engineering and computer science. I suspect cognitive and educational reasons for this. These individuals tend to think in very literal and literally binary terms. Computer cod

I strongly suspect that mystical experiences of light and energy are experiences of light and energy “from the inside,” whereas the physics of light and energy is mathematically mapping light and energy “from the outside.”

I propose that we reimagine the humanities as the study of consciousness coded in culture.