This blog was co-authored by Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., and John Vervaeke, Ph.D. Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have grappled with the problem of what it is and how it works. In academic ...
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Fans of Sir Tom Stoppard have been given a glimpse of The Hard Problem, his first new work in nearly a decade Olivia Vinall as Hilary, and Anthony Calf as Jerry in The Hard Problem by Sir Tom Stoppard ...
I’m spotting a worrying trend among startup founders who seem to think that running a startup is effectively a get-rich-quick scheme. Apart from that mindset being wrong and naive, I suspect there’s ...
I feel I’ve measured out my working life in Stoppard plays. As a young freelance, newly arrived in London, I was asked by Philip French in 1966 to do a review for the BBC Third Programme of two radio ...
Tom Stoppard's new play The Hard Problem has opened at the National Theatre to mixed reviews. The play, which poses big questions about the nature of consciousness, is Stoppard's first at the NT since ...
As Tom Stoppard’s new play, The Hard Problem, opens at the National Theatre, Henry Hitchings uncovers the magic ingredients that make the playwright great Stoppard through the ages: Rufus Sewell in ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Read an interview with Dennett here From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C Dennett (Allen Lane, £25) In the story of western modernity, science plays the role of both hero and villain—saviour and ...