Consciousness and Psychology: The Mind, Bias and Belief

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The unreliable narrator inside your skull

Consciousness and Psychology

Perception, memory, cognitive bias, dreams and belief: a sceptical exploration of how the mind constructs a workable reality—and then mistakes it for the world.

A field guide to the mind

The most interesting questions about consciousness sit where neuroscience, psychology and philosophy collide. The aim here is clarity without pretending that difficult mysteries have easy answers.

Conscious experienceExplore perception, predictive processing and the persistent mystery of subjectivity.
Bias and beliefSee how good brains reach bad conclusions—and why intelligence offers no immunity.
Dreams and altered statesExamine lucid dreaming, hallucination and the changing boundaries of the self.

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Begin with the latest consciousness pieces, then continue into psychology, neuroscience and lucid dreaming.

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The Plausible Bullshit Theory of Human Consciousness

A clear, sceptical tour through predictive processing, perception and the convincing stories the brain invents to keep reality coherent.

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