Like the hard problem of consciousness, the problem of psychology can be easily stated; as we move from physics and astronomy into chemistry and geology and into biology and neuroscience, we see ...

If the problem you are solving isn’t inherently hard, that’s a huge problem in itself, for a number of reasons. The biggest problem is that you immediately lose your competitive advantage.

The hard problem seemed logical at the time, but it became null and void when the primacy of physical matter was deposed, seen once and for all as a false assumption.

These problems, called NP-complete, were independently formulated and shown to exist in the early 1970s by two computer scientists, American Canadian Stephen Cook and Ukrainian American Leonid Levin.

The hard problem can be contrasted with easier problems, such as the neurocognitive correlates of consciousness (e.g., we can correlate working memory with portions of the brain such as the ...

My initial reaction was shock, but after the discussion I told myself to take a deep breath and consider the “feedback” in a ...

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain ...

Solving hard problems changes the way you think and look at the world. Pattern recognition: Make the gears mesh. I’ll take an analogy and compareproblem solving to a system.

Carol was deeply disappointed. She had hired someone she thought would be a superstar for her team—the peanut butter to her jelly—only to face one difficult interaction after another. It ...

Former national coach Yeng Guiao knows what it’s like to be on the hot seat coming from a losing situation. At the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China, Guiao piloted Gilas to a winless record. But Guiao said ...