122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain
Imagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens […]
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Thinking
105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell
We gather empirical evidence about the nature of the world through our senses, and use that evidence to construct an
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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity
Creativity is one of those things that we all admire but struggle to define or make concrete. Music provides a
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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
What direction does time point in? None, really, although some people might subconsciously put the past on the left and
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87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
If you tell me that one of the world’s leading neuroscientists has developed a theory of how the brain works
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85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Our Future Selves
It’s hard to make decisions that will change your life. It’s even harder to make a decision if you know
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82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances was a 1971 United Nations treaty that placed strong restrictions on the use of psychedelic
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78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image
Wilfrid Sellars described the task of philosophy as explaining how things, in the broadest sense of term, hang together, in
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71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere
The human brain contains roughly 85 billion neurons, wired together in an extraordinarily complex network of interconnected parts. It’s hardly
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68 | Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Common Sense
Artificial intelligence is better than humans at playing chess or go, but still has trouble holding a conversation or driving
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