Most people don’t think twice about the water running through their home, but hard water has a way of making itself known — slowly, subtly, and usually at the worst possible moment. It’s the kind of ...

Some philosophers think that there is a hard problem of consciousness: No matter how much scientists learns about neural processes, they can never explain why all this processing is accompanied by ...

It is impossible to imagine a master chef who doesn’t know how to cook, a cabinet maker who doesn’t know anything about carpentry, or a pianist who can’t read music. All three sound like ...

The philosopher David Chalmers claimed in the 1990s that we neuroscientists have tackled only what he calls the ‘easy’ part of the problem of consciousness, namely “where in the brain does it arise?” ...