Conscious vs. Subconscious mind: Do you really know the difference? The subconscious mind is what guides our automatic movements every day. Remember the first time trying to ride a bike? Mine definitely didn’t go well. But 10 years after that, I found myself cycling to my work and back in Amsterdam everyday. The difference that my subconscious mind stored all the information I need to ride a bike and let my conscious mind pay attention to the other things like traffic lights and my surroundin...

Introduction to Consciousness Consciousness is an individual’s state of awareness of their environment, thoughts, feelings, or sensations; in order to experience consciousness, one must be both awake and aware. Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself, such as thoughts, feelings, memories, or sensations. It has also been defined in the following ways: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefuln...

String theory is an attempt to reconcile Einstein’s GR with QM.  It unify our beloved forces of Nature in a single Quantum mechanical framework.   That is the main motivation of string theory.    Originally, The story was different. String Theory was intended as a description of the strong nuclear force, Later we realized that it allows for a quantum description of gravity.  The premise of string theory is that at the fundamental level, matter does not consist of point particles but rather one...