Since the inception of space exploration from the 1950s, the selection of astronauts has been a critical component along with technological advancements in rocket and spacecraft development. As missions began to extend beyond six months in the 2010s, the management of daily schedules— particularly in terms of striking a balance between public duties and private time—became essential for...
The mind matter problem is an age old philosophical one which engaged the minds of scholars from the Vedic period through those of neuroscience of modern age and the quantum physicists in the 20th century. The vedic sages considered consciousness not only as primordial, but also universal and ubiquitous, causative of matter (reality in its various aspects). According to neuroscience...