David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Tuning into the Universe: Your Brain as a Cosmic Radio
Hello, space cadets and stargazers! Today, we’re taking a quantum leap into a new understanding of the brain. We’re not diving into textbook neuroscience or exploring the convoluted pathways of our gray matter; instead, we’re stepping back to view our…
Is Consciousness Stuck In Your Brain? What We Think Now
The exploration of consciousness has long been the domain of philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists, each bringing unique perspectives to this complex and mysterious phenomenon. Let’s take a deeper dive. Consciousness, at its core, is our subjective experience of the world….
What is the difference between consciousness and awareness?
The consensus belief is that “consciousness is the sum of all our perceptions, and awareness is the sum of all our conscious experiences.” Let’s take a closer look. by David Stone In other words, consciousness refers to our ability to…
The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Now Explained “Simply”
In 1995, the great philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers published a paper that included what has come to be known as “the hard problem of consciousness.” This is the problem of explaining how it is that we have subjective…
What happens to our consciousness after we die?
Are you just gone, or does consciousness after we die continue in some way? There are many different theories about what could happen after death. by David Stone Consciousness After We Die…? Some people believe that the consciousness will be…
My cat’s perspective on the hard problem of consciousness
It happened again, this morning. My cat Max taught me that what conservative scientists’ call the “hard problem” of consciousness is not that. It’s a hard problem of accepting what cats already know. They don’t even bother thinking about it….
How your mind is not inside your skull…
We’ve always believed our minds are tucked away between our ears, but your mind, contrary to what everyone thinks, is not your brain or even inside it. It’s incredible, after one hundred years, we’ve learned so little from quantum physics….
Ditch The Subconscious. Feel Better Because It’s Not True
Let’s ditch the subconscious. It’s a myth, Nineteenth Century woo-woo Freud made popular. It fit the uptight Viennese of the time, but today, it’s a default for misunderstanding our own nature. by David Stone We gained a lot of knowledge…
Deepak Chopra Explodes Big Scientific Pretense With A Small Joke
Deepak Chopra’s joke surprised me. I’ve read many of his books and loved most of them, but for the first time, I saw his sense of humor full-blown. Previously, I wasn’t all that sure he had one. By David Stone…
Is Mainstream Science Blind Or Just Refusing To See?
Is mainstream science blind? In a narrow but critical way, the simple answer is, “Yes.” But it might be more about refusing to see… By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Ignorance as an act of faith We take…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor