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The Sucker, the Sucker!
What’s it like to be an octopus? By Amia Srinivasan.
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The Itch
What if you started itching—and couldn’t stop? By Atul Gawande.
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A Map of the Soul
Neuroscience is confirming what Aquinas recognized long ago: Human beings are not purely material. By Michael Egnor.
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A Mind Made Out of Silk
Spiders appear to offload information processing tasks to their webs, leading some to suggest that a mind can be located outside of the head. By Joshua Sokol.
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Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
The emperor of physics defends his controversial theory of mind. By Steve Paulson.
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Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level. By Tim Urban.
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Dreaming Outside Our Heads
Sooner or later any theory of consciousness must address this question: How can it be that during sleep, but very occasionally in waking moments too, we have experiences that have nothing to do with the world immediately around our bodies? By Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks.
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Is Matter Conscious?
Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics. By Hedda Hassel Mørch.
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The Spiritual, Reductionist Consciousness of Christof Koch
What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him. By Steve Paulson.
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Chimpanzees hunting for honey are cleverer than we thought
New, fascinating observations about the behaviour of wild chimpanzees showed that they can apply a complex technique to access honey. By Vittoria Estienne.
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Chimp mother filmed cleaning dead body of son in first hint of primate funeral rites
A chimpanzee was filmed using tools to apparently clean the corpse of her adopted son, the first hint that animals other than humans have mortuary practises. By Sarah Knapton.
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?
For fifty years the philosopher Daniel Dennett has been engaged in a grand project of disenchantment of the human world, using science to free us from what he deems illusions—illusions that are difficult to dislodge because they are so natural. In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his eighteenth book, Dennett presents a valuable and typically lucid synthesis of his worldview. By Thomas Nagel.
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What We’ve Learned from Giving Dolphins LSD
Communication between humans and animals may be possible after all. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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Split brain does not lead to split consciousness
A new research study contradicts the established view that so-called split-brain patients have a split consciousness. Instead, the researchers behind the study have found strong evidence showing that despite being characterized by little to no communication between the right and left brain hemispheres, split brain does not cause two independent conscious perceivers in one brain.
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A Novel Theory for Why Humans Evolved Selves
Know yourself, know your worth. By Drake Baer.
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The Voices in Our Heads
Why do people talk to themselves, and when does it become a problem? By Jerome Groopman.
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Thinking in the Deep: Inside the Mind of an Octopus
In “Other Minds,” Peter Godfrey-Smith shows how the abilities of the octopus offer insight into the evolution of animal intelligence. By Carl Safina.
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How to Build a Time Machine
The concept is a lot newer than most people realize. By Maria Konnikova.
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Octopuses Are ‘the Closest We Will Come to Meeting an Intelligent Alien’
You don’t want to be speciesist about consciousness, do you? By Drake Baer.
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The Secret Life of Time
It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. By Alan Burdick.
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