Key Takeaways Dualism holds that the mind and body are separate, with mental experiences not fully explained by physical processes alone.René Descartes popularized dualism by arguing the mind is ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than consciousness, but it is far from clear how to ...