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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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A Novel Theory for Why Humans Evolved Selves
Know yourself, know your worth. By Drake Baer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is Matter Conscious?
Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics. By Hedda Hassel Mørch.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Itch
What if you started itching—and couldn’t stop? By Atul Gawande.
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The Sucker, the Sucker!
What’s it like to be an octopus? By Amia Srinivasan.
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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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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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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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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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