Ever tried to follow your thoughts while brushing your teeth? One moment, you are thinking about toothpaste flavors; the next, you wonder if penguins have knees. Suddenly, you are replaying an ...

This year marks 80 years since the death of the great Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). His most famous novel, Ulysses (1922), is one of those books, like Moby Dick or Infinite Jest, that more ...

It's June 16 - Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's Ulysses takes place. This novel is a prime example of the stream of consciousness writing style. Song lyrics can have that same style of ...

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious ...

This is part 2 of a 5-part series. Part 1 provided an overview of the leading theories of consciousness. In this post, we will focus on higher-order theories (HOTs) of consciousness, one of several ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences What was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have ...

IN order to enjoy the modern psychological novel, one need not be a student of modern psychology, but decidedly one must be of a certain type of mind. Between the acts, at an early performance of ...