Have you ever lain awake at 3 AM, staring at the ceiling, wrestling with a thought so profound it makes your brain hurt? These aren't just ordinary ...

Consciousness is a paradox – both intimately knowable and nearly impossible to pin down. As humans, we know we have it but haven't a clue how it arises. It's a facet of intelligent life so nebulous ...

Permaculture Garden recreates systems from nature allowing each element to contribute to the success of the whole. Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by: Citizens of the Planet/Education ...

Of all the odd notions to emerge from debates over consciousness, the oddest is that it doesn’t exist, at least not in the way we think it does. It is an illusion, like “Santa Claus” or “American ...

In her latest book, The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence, teacher, poet, and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht argues that wonder is our core human experience, accessible through a ...

Matthew Duncombe receives funding from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. These stories are fanciful, but they point to something maddeningly true about paradoxes: there cannot be a single, ...