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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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The function of music with Jad Abumrad
Music might be quintessentially human, but does it serve a purpose?
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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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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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Material Issue
Reclaiming a living cosmos from the dead-end tradition of Western scientism. By Jackson Lears.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What Is a ‘Self’?
Here Are All the Possibilities. By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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Westworld Is Strikingly Real
AI Could Be Conscious and Unpredictable. By Cody Delistraty,
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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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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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How to Build a Time Machine
The concept is a lot newer than most people realize. By Maria Konnikova.
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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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