Key points Your inner mind's "I" is your epistemic portal through which you have awareness and knowledge of the world. There are four primary modes or doorways of perception framed by your inner ...

Wheatley, Thalia, Anna Weinberg, Christine E. Looser, Tim Moran, and Greg Hajcak. "Mind Perception: Real but Not Artificial Faces Sustain Neural Activity beyond the N170/VPP." PLoS ONE 6, no. 2 ...

Experiments reveal a dynamic process that leads to the uncanny valley, with implications for both the design of robots and for understanding how we perceive one another as humans. Androids, or robots ...

Is everyone else a mindless zombie? Maybe. Even your mother could be a zombie. She may not eat brains, but she could still be a philosophical zombie—someone who speaks and acts normally, but who lacks ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery--what we see with the ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to establish that our perception of the passing of time can independently influence how a wound will heal. While preliminary, this novel study opens the ...

The other day, I was engaged in a philosophical discussion group about how to divide up the human mind. Initially, it was proposed that we could divide our minds into four categories of thinking, ...