Yamaoka Tesshu, a young student of Zen, visited one master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku. Desiring to show his attainment, he said: “The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, ...

Imagine standing at a crossroads. You pause, thinking you’re about to make a choice — left or right, stay or go, yes or no. It feels deliberate, conscious, yours. But what if that moment of decision ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Adam Bear opens his article, What ...

The release of Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, catapulted him into the middle of an ancient debate: whether humans have ...

AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says a philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela.

Addiction is a complex disorder that lies at the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy. While significant progress has been ...