The Conscious Network, hosted by UC Berkeley student group Conscious Living Collective, was a trip. The self-described “symposium on personal growth and social change,” which took place last Thursday ...

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As you read this, in the background—or perhaps the foreground—is the wandering mind. This basal activity may be best represented in current neuroscience by the Default Mode Network (DMN). The DMN is ...