Here is a 13-point synopsis of a book I published in the U.S. last week: The Hidden Spring. 1. The great 19th-century physiologist Johannes Müller believed that animate organisms "contain some ...

Forget ‘I think therefore I am’. In a new theory of embodied consciousness, the neuroscientists Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio propose that feelings are the source of consciousness. Long dismissed ...

2. A century later, Francis Crick (1994) declared that "you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the ...