143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
Mom, apple pie, and rationality — all things that are unquestionably good, right? But rationality, as much as we might […]
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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
“Time” and “the brain” are two of those things that are somewhat mysterious, but it would be hard for us
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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determined by a number
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128 | Joe Henrich on the Weirdness of the West
We all know stereotypes about people from different countries; but we also recognize that there really are broad cultural differences
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123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain
Emotions are at the same time utterly central to who we are — where would we be without them? —
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122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain
Imagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens
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105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell
We gather empirical evidence about the nature of the world through our senses, and use that evidence to construct an
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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity
Creativity is one of those things that we all admire but struggle to define or make concrete. Music provides a
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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
What direction does time point in? None, really, although some people might subconsciously put the past on the left and
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87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
If you tell me that one of the world’s leading neuroscientists has developed a theory of how the brain works
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