Subject: Consciousness (Keywords)

Tells the story of how two BBC broadcasters battled for the soul of English cricket during a time of great social change. For more than a quarter of a century after the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commen...

Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. New research shows that these creatures display remarkable...

Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out across the universe like butter on bread. Most philosophers believe that our experience is locked ...

In a Brazilian public hospital, Eulálio's heartbeat falters - his daughter and the nurses wait impatiently, listening to the incoherent monologue of a dying man. His daughter realises that her father's lips are not saying goodbye, but are painting an impressionistic canvas, rendered in the glori...

Am I my name? Am I my stuff? Am I my gender? Am I my skin colour? 'Who Am I?' is a trip into deepest inner space to answer one of life's biggest questions. We are all from the same place, and made of the same stuff, but we each see ourselves as individuals. It is an introspective exploration of t...