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The Convention on Psychotropic Substances was a 1971 United Nations treaty that placed strong restrictions on the use of psychedelic
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Wilfrid Sellars described the task of philosophy as explaining how things, in the broadest sense of term, hang together, in
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Artificial intelligence is better than humans at playing chess or go, but still has trouble holding a conversation or driving
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