Modern cognitive neuroscience has brought us right back to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic view of the unconscious mind. This is partly because the once-thought untestable theories are gaining ...

Prof Tanja Bosch, SARChI Chair in Digital Media Sociology and a professor in UCT’s Centre for Film and Media Studies, delivered their inaugural lecture on 29 July.

Homer’s works have long been heralded for highlighting the physical and psychological wounds of war. Yet director Christopher Nolan, far more than Homer, goes on to plumb Odysseus’ existential ...

Kashmir’s history as a center of learning and the arts for Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims offers another way of understanding ...

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it ...

Teens who supported President Donald Trump in 2016 became less aware of societal inequalities after the election.

The question now is can OpenAI and Anthropic pull off the same trick when their long-anticipated IPOs finally happen at a ...

By appreciating the nature of "random error," one can more easily develop a mechanistic understanding of the cause-and-effect ...

The idea of AI sentience is drawing more focus to consciousness science. But some researchers aren’t sure that’s a good thing.

"The courage St. Thomas More showed by his readiness to sacrifice his life rather than betray the truth makes him, also for us today, a martyr for freedom and for the primacy of conscience." Pope Leo ...