What if the brain is not underused, but already fully engaged? Between science and fiction, the alluring idea of unlocking hidden potential persists. What if we could unlock the full hidden potential of our brain?This is the captivating promise behind the film Lucy, which fascinated millions of viewers worldwide. The story begins in Taiwan. A…
Eliminating words to make certain ideas unthinkable, Newspeak turns language into a tool of cognitive control. How far can it shape reality? In 1949, George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty Four.A dark novel that went on to become one of the most influential dystopias of the twentieth century. It is a world of total surveillance, political…
Why do certain works captivate us so deeply? When confronted with an image, a story, or a piece of music, the brain mobilizes perception, emotion, and imagination to construct meaning. Neuroscience is beginning to unravel the mechanisms behind this process. Art has accompanied humanity since its earliest cultural traces. From cave paintings to contemporary novels,…
How does a story emerge from a single idea?Behind the act of writing lies a complex process where imagination, attention, and personal experience intertwine to shape a narrative. When we read a novel—especially one we truly love—we’re often struck by the depth of detail, the richness of imagination, and the way events connect so seamlessly….
Translation is not just moving from one language to another. It’s a mental process where the brain constantly interprets, adjusts, and rebuilds meaning. Behind every sentence, an invisible mechanism unfolds between language, memory, and understanding. Translation is certainly a linguistic act and an extra linguistic activity. However, it is above all a psycholinguistic process and,…
Between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, trauma appears as an organization, not a destiny. One the brain can reshape. In contemporary clinical practice, understanding what it truly means to heal from trauma requires moving beyond the traditional opposition between psyche and brain. Human beings are not made of ideas and words alone. They are also biological systems…
Long before modern psychology, the Stoics had already identified a key principle: suffering arises less from events than from their interpretation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is widely recognized as one of the most empirically supported psychotherapeutic approaches for emotional disorders, including anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors (Beck, 1976; Hofmann et al., 2012). Its core premise,…
Mind wandering disrupts attention, yet may also support learning. This ambivalence invites a reassessment of its role in cognition. We spend a large part of our days not entirely where we are. While our eyes are fixed on a screen, a book, or a conversation partner, the mind often drifts toward thoughts that have no…
“Good” news: AI does not think, but it does speak. “Bad” news: our unconscious speaks, while we imagine that we are thinking. This dual observation, paradoxical at first glance, lies at the heart of what I call Artificial Subjectivity. Let us begin by clarifying what we mean by “thinking.” If by thinking we mean a…
For decades, researchers have sought to unravel the mechanisms of consciousness. But beyond neural data, one essential dimension continues to resist explanation: lived experience itself. In 1974, the American philosopher Thomas Nagel, a professor at New York University and a major figure in the philosophy of mind, published what would become a landmark paper entitled…