It only took ten minutes for Candice Sanderson’s life to change completely. As a clinically trained psychologist, she was entirely unprepared to understand the nature of an energetic message she would receive one August morning on her drive to work. This event would mark the beginning of her...

How could it be that selves, complete with aims, striving to remain alive have emerged from cause-and-effect physics? What was the origin of "mattering" and how might it have appeared on Earth? In his book, "Neither Ghost Nor Machine", Jeremy Sherman along with collaborator Terrence Deacon,...

In Michael Graziano's latest book, "Consciousness and the Social Brain", we're introduced to a theory wherein the mechanism responsible for interpreting the attentional state of others may be responsible for our sense of self-awareness.