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Consciousness

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Consciousness.

Video playlists about Consciousness

How does my brain work?

How exactly does the brain -- a 3-pound snarl of nervous tissue -- create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, the sense of self? Researchers at the edge of science explain ...

What is consciousness?

Fascinating talks that explore one of the most mysterious phenomenons in the universe: the "self" (and why it exists).

Talks about Consciousness

Michael S. A. Graziano

What is consciousness?

Katherine Hampsten

How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it)

The language of lying

How do animals experience pain?

Andrey Vyshedskiy

The neuroscience of imagination

Why do we feel nostalgia?

How does anesthesia work?

Nathan S. Jacobs

How do schools of fish swim in harmony?

Why do we dream?

Guillaume Néry

The exhilarating peace of freediving

What are animals thinking and feeling?

Madhumita Murgia

How stress affects your brain

Sharon Horesh Bergquist

How stress affects your body

Catharine Young

How memories form and how we lose them

How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions

Do we see reality as it is?

See all talks on Consciousness

Exclusive articles about Consciousness

How one scientist is working to reach people in vegetative states

How many unresponsive patients actually have some consciousness of what’s occurring around them? Possibly up to 20 percent, according to neuroscientist Adrian Owen, who is determined to give them a voice.

Posted Sep 2017

If you want to know what aliens will be like, just look at an octopus

By examining the eight-armed marine creature and the peculiar way it engages with the world, we can get a glimpse into different ways of existing and being, says cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth.

Posted Jul 2017