In the quest for knowledge, science often prides itself on objectivity and empirical evidence. It is often contrasted with lived experience, which is defined as innately subjective and clearly in ...

Visual art is a subjective experience, but what draws one person into an artwork and turns off another? A new exhibit, "Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience," explores that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Some physicists propose that consciousness operates like a hologram. That means our subjective experiences project from information encoded at the quantum level ...

If only we could swap bodies, we could see and feel the world as others do. This idea isn’t just a favourite Hollywood plot, but was also conjured up by 17th-century philosopher and physician John ...

The questions of what subjective experience is, who has it and how it relates to the physical world around us have preoccupied philosophers for most of recorded history. Yet the emergence of ...

Sadness increases subjective experience of pain Patients that experienced pain in a sad emotional context reported higher subjective pain scores than in neutral or happy contexts, results of a small ...