Articles for category: Neuroscience, Space

If Consciousness Requires a Brain Then the Universe Was Unconscious for Its First Nine Billion Years - but If Consciousness Is Fundamental to Reality Then Something Was Always Experiencing Everything

If Consciousness Requires a Brain Then the Universe Was Unconscious for Its First Nine Billion Years – but If Consciousness Is Fundamental to Reality Then Something Was Always Experiencing Everything

Sameen David

Imagine pressing rewind on the universe. Galaxies shrink, stars un-form, atoms unstick from one another, and eventually even matter thins out into a hot, dense blur. At what point, exactly, does the last conscious experience flicker out? Is there some moment in the deep past when the lights of awareness go completely dark? That is ...

Evolutionary Psychology Says Jealousy May Be Much Older Than Marriage

Evolutionary Psychology Says Jealousy May Be Much Older Than Marriage

Sameen David

You probably think of jealousy as something tied to modern relationships: texting habits, social media likes, or who your partner is following online. But when you zoom out and look at the long sweep of human evolution, jealousy starts to look less like a glitch in your personality and more like an ancient survival tool ...

Studies Show That Dogs Who Play Regularly With Other Dogs or Their Owners Have Lower Baseline Cortisol Levels - and That Social Play Appears to Function as a Stress Regulator in Their Daily Lives

Studies Show That Dogs Who Play Regularly With Other Dogs or Their Owners Have Lower Baseline Cortisol Levels – and That Social Play Appears to Function as a Stress Regulator in Their Daily Lives

Sameen David

If you have ever watched your dog explode with joy at the sight of a ball or another friendly pup, you have probably wondered what is really going on under the surface. It turns out that those goofy zoomies and wrestling matches are not just entertainment; they are part of a powerful built‑in stress relief ...

Research Has Confirmed That Dogs Show Inequity Aversion - They Refuse to Perform Tasks When Another Dog Receives a Better Reward for the Same Work - Demonstrating a Sensitivity to Fairness That Was Previously Thought to Require Higher Cognition

Research Has Confirmed That Dogs Show Inequity Aversion – They Refuse to Perform Tasks When Another Dog Receives a Better Reward for the Same Work – Demonstrating a Sensitivity to Fairness That Was Previously Thought to Require Higher Cognition

Sameen David

You have probably joked that your dog gives you the same look you give your boss when someone else gets a bigger bonus. It turns out that comparison is not as far‑fetched as it sounds. When scientists carefully tested what dogs do when they see another dog getting a better payoff for the same task, ...

Studies Confirm That Dogs Show a Preferential Response to Human Voices Over Environmental Sounds in a Way That Wolves Do Not - Demonstrating That Attending to Human Vocal Signals Is a Product of Domestication Not Just Training

Studies Confirm That Dogs Show a Preferential Response to Human Voices Over Environmental Sounds in a Way That Wolves Do Not – Demonstrating That Attending to Human Vocal Signals Is a Product of Domestication Not Just Training

Sameen David

You probably already feel it in your bones: your dog seems to understand you in a way that goes way beyond basic commands. A simple “hey, buddy” can make your dog’s ears perk, tail wag, and eyes lock onto yours, even if there’s a TV blaring or a truck outside. What is easy to miss, ...

11 Things About Perception Psychologists Now Class as Genuine Illusions

11 Things About Perception Psychologists Now Class as Genuine Illusions

Sameen David

You probably think an illusion is just a party trick – a bent spoon, a spinning wheel, something you can shake off once you know the secret. That’s not what’s happening here. Modern perception research has quietly reached a much stranger conclusion: your brain isn’t misreading reality now and then. It’s constantly inventing pieces of ...

14 Discoveries About Consciousness That Unsettled the Researchers Involved

14 Discoveries About Consciousness That Unsettled the Researchers Involved

Sameen David

Everyone talks about “raising consciousness” like it’s a wellness trend, something you can stretch into on a yoga mat. Meanwhile, in actual labs, the science of consciousness has been quietly producing results so strange that the scientists running the experiments have gone on record saying the findings unsettle them. Brain scans that light up before ...