Higher states of consciousness are not hallucinations but authentic transformational experiences, mostly triggered by turmoil ...

Levels and states of awareness ...

The conscious experience of our surroundings involves several forms of attention, from bottom-up automatic attention to a more focused top-down attention. These forms of attention all rely on neural ...

Purposes of pleasure and pain? Our conscious experience makes up our lives, often through positive pleasure: I feel the warm sun on my skin, I hear the singing of birds, I enjoy the moment. Yet we ...

AKA the study of the mind and behavior ...