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Brains Might Sync As People Interact—and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

By Conor Feehly — 2021

Studies have shown that people synchronize heart rates and breathing when watching emotional films together. The same happens when romantic partners share a bed. Some scientists think we do this to build trust and perceive people as similar to ourselves, which encourages us to behave compassionately. Surprisingly, people synchronize their neural rhythms, too. Researchers think these findings could upend our current models of consciousness.

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Why We Should Rethink What We’ve Been Told About Consciousness

If we as adults are not free to make sovereign decisions—right or wrong—about our own consciousness, that most intimate, that most sapient, that most personal part of ourselves, then in what useful sense can we be said to be free at all?

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Graham Hancock
2013
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Perspectives on the Current Global Crisis: A Conversation with Ralph Metzner

A conversation with Ralph Metzner about his book, The Expansion of Consciousness, and his reflections on questions that touch on the most profound problems we face for our survival, our existence as a species.

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Will Shonbrun
2016
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Consciousness: Eight Questions Science Must Answer

The brain mechanisms of consciousness are being unravelled at a startling pace, with researchers focusing on eight key areas

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Anil Seth
2012
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The Real Problem

It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be.

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Anil Seth
2016
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What in the World Is Consciousness?

Our perception of the world around us, and ourselves within it, are ‘controlled hallucinations’ that the brain uses to help keep itself alive

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Anil Seth
2018
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Missed Opportunities, Part 1

What I would like to encourage . . . is to be open to what various teachings say, and, at the same time, question everything, even your own perceptions, until a more satisfactory method of verification than we have at present becomes available.

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A. H. Almaas
2013
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Dr. Eben Alexander on His Near-Death Experience—And What He’s Learned About Consciousness

In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.

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Eben Alexander
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Healing the World Through Consciousness Exploration

This is in fact the foundational assumption behind our notion of universal human rights: we are all conscious, and thus we all have needs and we all suffer.

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Phil Wolfson
2012
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William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

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Maria Popova
2018
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One Word Is the Answer to Everything

It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.

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Deepak Chopra, Neil D. Theise
2020
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