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The mind isn’t locked in the brain but extends far beyond it
Where is your mind? Where does your thinking occur? Where are your beliefs? By Keith Frankish.
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Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions
Data from 1,200 brain scans performed as part of the Human Connectome Project allowed researchers to unveil the brain’s hidden geography. By Carl Zimmer.
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Are We the Only Animals That Understand Ignorance?
Two psychologists argue that while apes and monkeys can think about the minds of others, they lack one crucial ability that only humans have. By Ed Yong.
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Men Are Better At Maps Until Women Take This Course
A bit of education can erase a definitive cognitive gap between men and women. By Andrew Curry. (Jan. 28, 2016)
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The Concept of ‘Cat Face’
Paul Taylor on machine learning.
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Hints of tool use, culture seen in bumble bees
String-pulling skills readily spread among bumble bees, despite their small brains. By Elizabeth Pennisi.
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Would it be ethical to implant false memories in therapy?
We can implant false memories with increasing ease – and it may well help you to live a healthier, happier life. But what are the ethics? By Robert Nash.
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People with Autism Make More Logical Decisions
Decisions are based on the way choices are framed. This is because people use emotion when making decisions, leading to some options feeling more desirable than others. For example, when given £50, we are more likely to gamble the money if we stand to lose £30 than if we are going to keep £20. Although both options are mathematically equivalent, the thought of losing money evokes a powerful emotional response and we are more likely to gamble to try to avoid losing money.
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Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there?
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own? By Murray Shanahan.
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Animal Minds: The new anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphic thinking is now mainstream science — but not all researchers are happy about that. By Brandon Keim. (Oct. 2, 2016)
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“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination
Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the birth of Ramon Llull, Jonathan Gray looks at how their early visions of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
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Sex as an Algorithm: The Theory of Evolution Under the Lens of Computation
Looking at the mysteries of evolution from a computer science point of view yields some unexpected insights. By Adi Livnat, Christos Papadimitriou.
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The Running Conversation in Your Head
What a close study of "inner speech" reveals about why humans talk to themselves. By Julie Beck.
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Forgotten Childhood Memories Still Shape Your Life
Much of your identity is formed during moments you won't remember. By Erika Hayasaki.
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The Excitable Mitochondria
Without a CAD model of the brain, we will never be able to develop the advanced brain implants we will want. But instead of scaling up neural nets, John Hewitt argues, we need to begin with the mitochondrial networks that drove neuronal evolution.
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The Woman Who Sees Time as a Hula Hoop
A small group of people see calendars not as grids, but as as rings, check marks, and other objects that seem almost vividly real. By Ed Yong.
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Why Are You So Smart? Thank Mom and Your Difficult Birth
The fact that so many women die in childbirth outside the context of modern medicine is a sign of how important intelligence is for our species. By Jim Davies.
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Why bees could be the secret to superhuman intelligence
A tool inspired by swarming insects is helping people predict the future - making groups of people smarter than their members are by themselves. By Simon Oxenham.
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The rise and fall and rise of logic
Is logical thinking a way to discover or to debate? The answers from philosophy and mathematics define human knowledge. By Catarina Dutilh Novaes.
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The Road to Pseudoscientific Thinking
How to prevent the most salient feature from being the least informative
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