The Zen teacher Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he wondered, "Am I a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I really a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?" The ...

And even airplane flights often don’t get us high enough to appreciate the curvature of the Earth. So, that’s where many flat earthers start. But this is an example — one of many — of how our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. Consciousness can have many levels. The lowest level is ...

LIFE insurance is a bet on objective reality – a bet that something exists, even if I cease to. This bet seems quite safe to most of us. Life insurance is, accordingly, a lucrative business. While we ...

Researchers are making a counter-intuitive claim: reality itself may be subjective, thanks to quantum weirdness on a microscopic scale. In a new paper in the journal Science Advances, an international ...