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Are you sleepwalking now? What we know about mind-wandering
Given how little control we have of our wandering minds, how can we cultivate real mental autonomy? By Thomas Metzinger.
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The Smart Set
Ludwig Huber, a cognitive biologist and professor at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, reviews "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" by Frans de Waal.
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The Octopus Is Not a Crafty, Soulful Genius. It’s Dinner
Octopus fandom is out of control and blind to the evidence. By Daniel Engber.
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You Can Have Emotions That 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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What Is Consciousness?
Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers. By Christof Koch.
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Are Your Palms Itchy? The Meaning of Itchy Palms (Money Superstition)
Have you ever heard that the itching of your left or right hand has some meaning or carries a hidden message? Itchy palms are associated with money - either money coming in or money to be paid out. My grandmother used to..itchy palms
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Is The Sun Conscious?
Rupert Sheldrake
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Rewriting the brain pathway for consciousness
With a finding that will "rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks," University of Iowa neurologist Aaron Boes, MD, Ph.D., and his colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway involved in keeping humans awake and conscious.
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To save us from a Kafkaesque future, we must democratise AI
Picture a system that makes decisions with huge impacts on a person’s prospects – even decisions of life and death. Imagine that system is complex and opaque: it sorts people into winners and losers, but the criteria by which it does so are never made clear. Those being assessed do not know what data the system has gathered about them, or with what data theirs is being compared. And no one is willing to take responsibility for the system’s decisions – everyone claims to be fulfilling their own cog-like function.
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Fish Appear to Recognize Themselves in the Mirror
The cleaner wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test -- a method considered the gold standard for determining self-awareness in animals. The finding suggests that fish might possess far higher cognitive powers than previously thought, and ignites a high-stakes debate over how we assess the intelligence of animals that are so unlike ourselves.
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The Golden Path of the Soul To Enlightenment
The Golden Path of the Soul To Enlightenment is a deep spiritual message that speaks to your heart and Soul. Reveal what insights the Golden Path holds for You!
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Where Do Morals Come From?
We all have a sense of right and wrong, but where does it come from? Primatologist Frans de Waal's new theory on the origin of morality turns traditional approaches on their heads.
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Are psychiatrists really ready for the AI revolution?
Machine learning can help manage a wide range of mental health disorders. But the psychiatric profession is worryingly unprepared for this change, according to a global survey.
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Fish experience pain with ‘striking similarity’ to mammals - University of Liverpool News
A new University of Liverpool study has concluded that the anglers’ myth ‘that fish don’t feel pain’ can be dispelled: fish do indeed feel pain, with a similarity to that experienced by mammals including humans.
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Can Machines Ever Truly Become Artists?
There is a theory in mathematics that an indefinite number of monkeys typing on an indefinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the complete written works of William Shakespeare. Were that the case, however, would we consider their work to be art?
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Psychedelic Synergy: How Meditation and Psychedelics Could Have Complimentary Effects
Meditation and psychedelics seem to have similar experiential effects. A new paper highlights how they could work in harmony when applied together.
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Is Consciousness Bound by Quantum Physics? We're Getting Closer to Finding Out
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anesthesiologist
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How mindfulness could make you selfish
Mindfulness is said to do many things for our psyche: it can increase our self-control, sharpen our concentration, extend our working memory and boost our mental flexibility. With practice, we should become less emotionally reactive – allowing us to deal with our problems more calmly.
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The origin of consciousness
MuZero is an algorithm with a superhuman ability to learn: it has learned to play 57 different Atari video games as well as Chess, Go and Shogi, and defeated the greatest human masters in every one of them. Yet, this amazing algorithm and the computer in which it is implemented are as conscious as your washing machine. Its “intelligence”, manifest in its learning ability, has nothing to do with consciousness – the ability to feel, perceive and think in the deeply subjective sense that we cherish.
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Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness
Understanding depression as an altered state of consciousness, like a dream or drug trip, could help people awaken from it
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