You can doubt just about anything. But there's one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right now.

The seemingly trivial distinction between mind and brain has profound implications for modern science. The “hard problem of ...

This position is known as physicalism or materialism. The second view is that thoughts might stand apart from the physical world. They are not like atoms, but are an entirely distinct type of thing.

To study the interactions between electrons in a material, physicists have come up with a number of tricks over the years. These interactions are interesting, among other things, because they lead ...