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consciousness

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Life

Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world

What's the point of consciousness? Experiments suggest it evolved to help us learn and adapt more rapidly than we could without it

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Physics

A classic quantum test could reveal the limits of the human mind

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Brain zaps let minimally conscious people communicate for a week

Humans

Brain zaps let minimally conscious people communicate for a week

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Life

Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind

Features

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Life

A guide to why your world is a hallucination

Culture

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Health

Anaesthesia: What really happens when the lights go out

Features

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Health

Putting you under: When anaesthesia goes wrong

Features

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Technology

Why your brain is like a conscious termite colony

Features

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Life

We know we are – but what else is conscious too?

Culture

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Technology

We will soon be able to read minds and share our thoughts

EEG caps that monitor brain activity are allowing us to send thoughts to each other directly – a technology that could help people who are paralysed regain movement

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Humans

Super-you: Fine-tune your life by making goals into habits

Features

Humans

Super-you: Use your better instincts to crush your inner bigot

Features

Health

Unconscious brain training beats phobias without the stress

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Humans

A Day in the Life of the Brain hunts consciousness

Culture

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