Meditation practices have been claimed to have a positive effect on the regulation of mood and emotion for quite some time by practitioners, and in recent times there has been a sustained effort to provide a more precise description of the changes induced by meditation on human brain. Longitudinal studies have reported morphological changes in cortical thickness and volume in selected brain...
Many people are unwilling to consider that com puters may, at some time, be able to think, and even, become sentient. The human mind, they would argue, is essentially these qualities: it is what gives us consciousness, separates us from animals (presum ably), other beings, and inanimate objects, allows us to exercise freewill and judgement, and is at the heart of, perhaps, our most treasured...