Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" I remember the Sunday—I was about ten or eleven years old—when I refused to go to the Children’s Service at the local Parish Church if a certain hymn was to ...

As individuals, we feel that we know what consciousness is because we experience it daily. It’s that intimate sense of personal awareness we carry around with us, and the accompanying feeling of ...

That sinking feeling before your phone rings with bad news. The inexplicable urge to take a different route home that later saves you from a traffic nightmare. Most people dismiss these moments as ...

We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...