An old friend of mine was buried last week. I haven’t seen him for a few years and did not call to say goodbye. I had heard he was sick but didn’t think he was going to die; pneumonia doesn’t ...

Russell, a "scientist at heart," seems somewhat oversold as a physicist, although his undergraduate work at Cambridge brought him into Steven Hawking's office on occasion. But his curiosity about the ...

FOR more than fifty years we have known, or could have known, that there is an unconscious as a counterbalance to consciousness. Medical psychology has furnished all the necessary empirical and ...

I am constantly thinking about the state of the world, about international relations, about geopolitics, about ...

When the infinite decides to create the finite, something remarkable happens: a spark of consciousness is born, capable of ...

TWO weeks before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, I flew to Tucson, Arizona, and knocked on the door of a suburban ranch-style house. I was there to visit Stuart Hameroff, anaesthesiologist and co ...

Monsignor Frederick D. Leising has served for six years as pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, Lancaster. Ordained in 1971, he was formerly president and rector of Christ the King Seminary, ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...