Can string theory be verified? Whether science should consider only testable ideas became such a hotly debated question in physics, to even warrant a conference in Munich. String theory, the elegant and promising idea in theoretical physics is in a serous limbo. The experimental testing of ideas is considered an essential requirement in science. String theory is the science of the very small, which excludes the technical impossibility of empirical testing. The crisis comes from the wildly speculative nature of physics theories, which have thus might have departed from the scientific method...Read more...

How does consciousness operate? More and more scientific data point to the unconscious origin of not only arbitrary decisions, but even conscious goals. Research suggests that goals themselves arise motivated and primed by social situations. These goals operate in our lives, even before we are conscious of them; our conscious decisions are just a final rubber stamp on the plans of our social subconscious. The representation of the body in the mind is abstract and based on the region's sensory importance. Read more... 

 

"To have a glimpse of what consciousness   is   would  be 
the scientific achievement before which all others would pale.” – William James