11 articles from SUNDAY 2.10.2022

Once a year I lose myself in the Western Isles to walk and think – before going back to the life I love

This remote part of Scotland, so central to my beginnings, works like a time machine on meWest of Sligachan, the Black Cuillins rise – icebound in the winter and shrouded in cloud. I begin my walk beneath their sentry, Sgùrr nan Gillean, the peak that heralds the start of the dark serrated ridge that coils around the most mysterious of all Scotland’s lochs – Loch Coruisk, whose name means...

Is the body key to understanding consciousness?

A new understanding of the fundamental connection between mind and body explains phenomena such as phantom limbs, and has surprising implicationsIn 2018, billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman paid a startup called Nectome $10,000 to preserve his brain after he dies and, when the technology to do so becomes available, to upload his memories and consciousness to the cloud.This prospect,...