Is your sense of reality in fact a hallucination?
Unthinkable: We don’t know how consciousness works, but some theories are better than others
Does the key to consciousness lie within our brains?
Much recent research supports the view that science can describe consciousness
Is your ‘true self’ a kind of ghost?
Unthinkable: One of philosophy’s great debates may be down to a misunderstanding
What is life? Top scientists gather in Dublin to work on Schrödinger’s key question
Five Nobel Prize-winners and some of the world’s most brilliant science minds will speak at the Schrödinger at 75 – the Future of Biology meeting, hosted by Trinity College Dublin
Who wants to live forever? Transhumanism’s promise of eternal life
Mark O’Connell has spent several years talking to people who want to live through robots and technology, and he admits it stems from his own obsession with death
Unthinkable: Who should you follow on social media for unbiased opinion?
Philosophers should take the broadest possible measure of beliefs, argues philosopher Justin EH Smith
Unthinkable: Is philosophy having an existential crisis?
Irish governments have been slow to draw on philosophers, argues Joseph Mahon
Unthinkable: Are scientists wrong to dismiss astrology?
Philosopher (and Capricorn) Martin Cohen says star signs deserve a serious look
Unthinkable: Why Charles Darwin is a threat to religion
Evolution would not have become so contentious had Charles Darwin’s findings come later, argues Prof Peter J Bowler
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