Smack bang in the middle of your brain sits a tiny structure called the pineal gland, which has puzzled neuroscientists and philosophers for centuries. Among those to speculate on the role of this ...

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The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness actually ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.