Tag: Consciousness
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Is your houseplant conscious?
Contrary to what it is commonly assumed, plants seem to be capable of many of the cognitive abilities traditionally assumed to be exclusive to animals. Hence, the behavioral evidence thus suggests that plants could qualify to be sentient organisms. Segundo-Ortin, Miguel et al. This article recently published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science explores…
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Things are not as they seem.
Take a look around you. Everything you see, hear and touch is only an illusion constructed in your head.Don’t believe me? Read on…. “Take a simple object; something right at hand: a pen.Hold it in your hand; look at it; tap it on the desktop, and listen to the sound. Now, consider your experience of…
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Book review: Why Materialism is Baloney
Why Materialism is Baloney is a book about the philosophical hypothesis of analytical idealism. Most of us have been brought up to believe that the world we inhabit is made up of matter. From snickers bars to the Milky Way, everything is made up of bits of material stuff that are in turn made up of…
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Are fish conscious beings?
This article published in Aeon looks at the question of sentience in fish. In me at least, when I stop and think about it, this raises a creeping feeling of unease. There is an increasing body of evidence that challenges our sapiens-centric claim to being the consciousness boss of things around here. If even fish are…
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The past life memories of Tommo
In this paper, Ohkado Masayuki investigates the past life memories of a Japanese boy who was born in 2000. Masayuki conducted two interviews on this case, one with the subject, who was 9.5 yrs at the time, and his mother (in June 2010) and one with the subject and his father (in July 2010). One…
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The Mystery of Terminal Lucidity
Terminal Lucidity (also known as paradoxical lucidity or, in this case, energy surge) is a poorly understood condition where a person with existing significant cognitive decline such as Alzheimer’s or end-stage cancer suddenly improves. They may recognise their surroundings and family members again and hold meaningful, appropriate conversations. The US National Institute of Ageing defines…
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