sentience

Most explanations I have read regarding the feeling of the mind existing outside the body have not been completely satisfactory to me. I wanted to seek an explanation that is not only consistent with how we "feel" about our consciousness, but is still compatible with a scientific attitude. So...

A question has been bugging me lately. I am an agnostic/atheist, and don't really believe in a soul or an afterlife. But if there is no soul, I wonder why I have this subjective experience. I think the brain is probably what is having this experience, but what part of the brain? Are the atoms...

The thread on survival after death made me remember that I had made a blog posting on the subject of reincarnation some time ago. I thought it might produce some discussion here. It's in the form of an internal dialogue (i.e I was mentally talking to myself, which happens quite a lot when I'm...

I remember reading that the reason people don't remember being born, and not much prior to age five because the myelin levels are low in the brain at and prior to those levels. Some speculate that it plays a role in long-term memory maintenance. Myelin is a fatty substance which plays a role...