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Westworld Is Strikingly Real
AI Could Be Conscious and Unpredictable. By Cody Delistraty,
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What Is a ‘Self’?
Here Are All the Possibilities. By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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Harvard Study Decrypts the Ancient Mystery of Consciousness
Neuroscientists may have pinpointed the seat of human consciousness. By Christopher Bergland. (Nov. 5, 2016)
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You Can Have Emotions 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 hard problem of consciousness is a distraction from the real one
It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be. By Anil K Seth.
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The open mind
The most vivid part of the mind bubbles up through sensation and new experience when unencumbered by analytical thought. By Daniel J. Siegel.
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?
Vinciane Despret blends science with story to give readers new ways to think about animals and our relationships with them. By Catherine Ramsdell. (Aug. 2016)
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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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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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How an Obscure Theory From 1976 Predicts the Plot of ‘Westworld’
The show just tipped its cards for a second. By Andrew Burmon.
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Is Consciousness a Ghost in the Machine?
A new theory speculates how consciousness arises in the brain. By Joel Frohlich.
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Material Issue
Reclaiming a living cosmos from the dead-end tradition of Western scientism. By Jackson Lears.
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Why panpsychism fails to solve the mystery of consciousness
Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – might sound like New Age mysticism, but some hard-nosed analytic philosophers hav...
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The art that shows what goes on deep in the human brain
Sleep paralysis and imagined memories - exploring the edges of human consciousness. By Paul Kerley. (Feb. 29, 2016)
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The function of music with Jad Abumrad
Music might be quintessentially human, but does it serve a purpose?
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The Mind–Body Problem, Scientific Regress and “Woo”
The science of consciousness, far from converging on a sensible paradigm, is going backward. By John Horgan.
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A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved
A neuroscientist on how we came to be aware of ourselves. By Michael Graziano.
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Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind
Science is struggling to figure out if we, or even a thermostat, truly possess matter beyond the physical. By George Johnson.
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Your memories aren’t in your brain
Philosopher and parapsychology researcher Dr. Stephen Braude sees fatal flaws in the “memories stored in brain” model. By Alex Tsakiris.
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Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter.
Every day, it seems, some verifiably intelligent person tells us that we don’t know what consciousness is. The nature of consciousness, they say, is an awesome mystery. It’s the ultimate hard problem. The current Wikipedia entry is typical: Consciousness “is the most mysterious aspect of our lives”; philosophers “have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness.”
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