unconscious

In the science fiction classic “2001, A Space Odyssey,” HAL, the all too human-like computer, malfunctions and kills the hibernating crewmembers, and then snuffs out the life of one of…

The question of free will has bedeviled philosophers for ages. Modern science is both throwing new light on the issue, and increasing the shadows of confusion by upholding the separate…

A neuroscientist named Benjamin Libet made a remarkable discovery at the University of California, San Francisco in the mid-1980’s. After placing electrodes on volunteer’s skulls and forefingers, he asked them…