The 19th-Century Trippers Who Probed the Mind
In the age of self-experiment, scientists took mind-altering drugs to test the limits of subjectivity.
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The Worth of Wild Ideas
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
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The Faulty Weathermen of the Mind
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
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The Psychopathic Path to Success
Turns out there can be a positive side to the psychopathic traits that may lurk inside all of us.
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Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet
How the wager between a neuroscientist and a philosopher will keep paying off.
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Reality Is Your Brain’s Best Guess
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
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Why Scientists Need to Get High
Psychoactive drugs have long been hailed as miracle cures. But you can only understand the paths they blaze through the mind if you’ve traveled them.
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Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
