"Philosophy is dead," said Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and mathematician [1]. This famous phrase caused quite a stir and much criticism because of the context in ...

Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of what is real. At the smallest scales, the equations that power lasers, ...

The philosophical area of metaphysics asks the question: What is the nature of reality? Is there an objective world out there, and can the mind grasp that? To assist you, the reader, in determining ...

"What Is Reality?" – Explore how the brain conjures the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted. (Also Fri. 10/16 at 4 a.m.; Sun. 10/18 at 2 p.m.) ...

Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...