I get a lot of questions in Quora about neuroscience, because neuroscience is what I do. A recent question prompted this post. The question was: "Does all thinking originate in subconscious thinking?" ...

On the morning of October 21, 1966, the Welsh mining village of Aberfan was struck by one of Britain’s most harrowing peacetime disasters. After days of heavy rain, a slag heap collapsed off a ...

In the early hours of the morning, around 4 a.m., I confronted a startling experience. A dark figure—a man—stood beside my bed. It was clear that he had only just shaken me awake. I could feel the ...

Each person has an inner voice and that voice carries messages to us throughout our life. We can divide the mind into two parts, the conscious and the non-conscious. The conscious is the part that ...

For philosophical guidance on encounters with technology, open a support ticket via email; or register and post a comment below. Sometime in the early 2000s, I came across an essay in which the author ...

Conscious robots with the capabilities of human beings are one of the oldest sci-fi tropes; a threatening blend of human and machine that could turn from friend to foe at a moment’s notice. With ...

Historically, organizations have made substantial investments in the anticipation and elimination of incidents, specifically in the areas of prevention, process and systems improvement. Much of this ...

I get a lot of questions in Quora about neuroscience, because neuroscience is what I do. A recent question prompted this post. The question was: "Does all thinking originate in subconscious thinking?" ...