The entire universe may have an internal mind—or the whole idea of consciousness could be a sham. Here’s why scientists still ...

In a world increasingly dominated by logic, lab coats, and hard data, the concept of the soul often seems relegated to the realm of religion and folklore. But what if modern science is edging closer ...

College socialized me to dismiss religion. It was part of the academic zeitgeist: Smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore. I became a child of the Enlightenment, a materialist, confident the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Blake’s 1805 illustration for Scottish poet Robert Blair's poem "The Grave" imagines the soul rising from the body at ...

In my previous post, I explained why the traditional soul is a testable hypothesis about the nature and functioning of the human mind. What then can we conclude about the existence of the soul? In a ...