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Psychedelic Synergy: How Meditation and Psychedelics Could Have Complimentary Effects
Meditation and psychedelics seem to have similar experiential effects. A new paper highlights how they could work in harmony when applied together.
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Can Machines Ever Truly Become Artists?
There is a theory in mathematics that an indefinite number of monkeys typing on an indefinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the complete written works of William Shakespeare. Were that the case, however, would we consider their work to be art?
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Fish experience pain with ‘striking similarity’ to mammals - University of Liverpool News
A new University of Liverpool study has concluded that the anglers’ myth ‘that fish don’t feel pain’ can be dispelled: fish do indeed feel pain, with a similarity to that experienced by mammals including humans.
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Are psychiatrists really ready for the AI revolution?
Machine learning can help manage a wide range of mental health disorders. But the psychiatric profession is worryingly unprepared for this change, according to a global survey.
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Where Do Morals Come From?
We all have a sense of right and wrong, but where does it come from? Primatologist Frans de Waal's new theory on the origin of morality turns traditional approaches on their heads.
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The Golden Path of the Soul To Enlightenment
The Golden Path of the Soul To Enlightenment is a deep spiritual message that speaks to your heart and Soul. Reveal what insights the Golden Path holds for You!
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Fish Appear to Recognize Themselves in the Mirror
The cleaner wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test -- a method considered the gold standard for determining self-awareness in animals. The finding suggests that fish might possess far higher cognitive powers than previously thought, and ignites a high-stakes debate over how we assess the intelligence of animals that are so unlike ourselves.
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To save us from a Kafkaesque future, we must democratise AI
Picture a system that makes decisions with huge impacts on a person’s prospects – even decisions of life and death. Imagine that system is complex and opaque: it sorts people into winners and losers, but the criteria by which it does so are never made clear. Those being assessed do not know what data the system has gathered about them, or with what data theirs is being compared. And no one is willing to take responsibility for the system’s decisions – everyone claims to be fulfilling their own cog-like function.
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Rewriting the brain pathway for consciousness
With a finding that will "rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks," University of Iowa neurologist Aaron Boes, MD, Ph.D., and his colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway involved in keeping humans awake and conscious.
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Is The Sun Conscious?
Rupert Sheldrake
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Are Your Palms Itchy? The Meaning of Itchy Palms (Money Superstition)
Have you ever heard that the itching of your left or right hand has some meaning or carries a hidden message? Itchy palms are associated with money - either money coming in or money to be paid out. My grandmother used to..itchy palms
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What Is Consciousness?
Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers. By Christof Koch.
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You Can Have Emotions That You Don’t Feel
What does it mean to have an emotion? It seems obvious that having one means feeling it. If you’re happy but don’t know it, in what sense could you actually be happy? By Jim Davies
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The Octopus Is Not a Crafty, Soulful Genius. It’s Dinner
Octopus fandom is out of control and blind to the evidence. By Daniel Engber.
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The Smart Set
Ludwig Huber, a cognitive biologist and professor at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, reviews "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" by Frans de Waal.
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Are you sleepwalking now? What we know about mind-wandering
Given how little control we have of our wandering minds, how can we cultivate real mental autonomy? By Thomas Metzinger.
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Why you need to touch your keys to believe they’re in your bag
Now why would touch bring us more certainty? This verdict is at odds with what cognitive science tells us. By Ophelia Deroy.
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Harvard scientists think they might have pinpointed the source of human consciousness
Human consciousness has been defined as awareness, sentience, a person’s ability to experience and feel, but despite the important role it plays in our lives and making us who we are, we actually know very little about how consciousness works. Scientists currently believe that consciousness is composed of two components: arousal and awareness. The first is regulated by the brainstem, but the physical origins of the latter were always a mystery. Now, a team of researchers at Harvard think they may have discovered the regions of the brain that work with the brainstem to maintain consciousness.
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Consciousness Depends on Tubulin Vibrations Inside Neurons, Anesthesia Study Suggests
Anesthetic gases selectively block consciousness, sparing non-conscious brain activities. Thus the specific mechanism of anesthetic action could reveal how the brain produces consciousness.
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Zombies Must Be Dualists
What the existence of zombies would do to our philosophy of mind. By Sean Carroll.
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