There is a recent report, U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence stating that, “nearly 3 in 5 (57%) U.S. teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 — double that of boys, representing a nearly 60% increase and the highest level reported over the past decade. Nearly…

There is a recent article, New release of Blue Brain Project Atlas sheds light on neuron types, where “EPFL’s Blue Brain Project shares an enriched version of their 3D digital cell atlas of the mouse brain which includes more neuron types.” Though this and other brain atlas projects around the…

Psychedelics have been in the news in recent days, with caution expressing stories like The dangerous hype around psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness, Psychedelics Open Your Brain. You Might Not Like What Falls In, Should You Buy Into the Hype of Microdosing Psychedelics?, …

There is a recent article, There is no problem of consciousness, discussing the relative position of objects to the body as conscious experiences. Descriptions of consciousness, like in the article, may shape understanding of what it might be, but the application of a description, say to something as central as…

There is a recent article, The lunacy of ‘machine consciousness’ explaining why it is probably impossible to ever have machines become conscious. There is a rebuttal, ‘Machine consciousness’ is not lunacy listing hindrances towards achieving it. A paragraph in the response stated, “We do not understand the neural basis of…

There is recent article in Scientific American Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too explaining the term and details like readiness potential or build up of neural activity before things get done. Free will in action, as explained by the article has to do with the mind…

A massive 379 million deadly doses of Fentanyl were seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] this year. There was a record number of overdose deaths in the US. Life expectancy dipped to new lows in decades, in part due to drug overdose deaths. The DEA and the National Institute…

How the brain gives the experience of loneliness is a determinative mechanism of immense value in the solitude that the frigid winter storm makes necessary. Loneliness does not often happen when alone. Loneliness can also occur when an individual is with others. …

There is a recent article in WIRED, Conscious Machines May Never Be Possible, discussing the limits of recent large language models [LLMs] to actual consciousness. There is another article, Consciousness may not require a brain excerpted from a book, CONSCIOUS, discussing how plants may also be conscious. Debates about consciousness…