but not have a mind? How do we make sense of claims like “plants are conscious” and “Freud revealed the dynamics of the unconscious mind”? This blog helps sort through these questions ...

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Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud focused on understanding the importance of the unconscious and conscious mind. While the focus of much of the research in psychology shifted to purely observable ...

Far from being a malign adjunct to the conscious mind, the unconscious is responsible for all sorts of important stuff. It is smart and it is often running the show. Still, that doesn’t mean we ...

Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious ...