The brain is not a computer, but it has the power to compute.The word computare is Latin, and comes from putare, to think. Neither is a computer any­thing like a human brain. But ...

In his book Landscapes of the Night, Dr Evans puts forward a new theory of dreaming. He states that our brain has programs’ for dealing with survival. We have basic behaviour pro...

Although mind and body may be a total unity, and the separation in language merely a convenience, despite its unity, our being has a number of interacting systems. The action of th...

Over the years many theories to ex­plain the ‘why’ of dreams have been put forward. These range from dreams being messages from spirits; being results of food eaten prior to s...