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Behaving rationally involves facing up to conditions of uncertainty; we never navigate the world with perfect confidence. Sometimes we are
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For all that human beings spend a lot of their time thinking, it’s far from obvious what that process actually
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It’s become increasingly clear that the Turing Test — determining whether human interlocutors can tell whether a conversation is being
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Why are people wrong all the time, anyway? Is it because we human beings are too good at being irrational,
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The human brain is extremely complicated, but decades of careful neuroscientific research have revealed quite a bit about how it
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Questions about consciousness range from the precise and empirical — what neurons fire when I have some particular experience —
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Consciousness is easier to possess than to define. One thing we can do is to look into the brain and
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