181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
A good story takes you on an emotional journey, with ups and downs along the way. Thanks to science, we […]
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Thinking
168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also
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150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
You observe a phenomenon, and come up with an explanation for it. That’s true for scientists, but also for literally
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148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
Democracy posits the radical idea that political power and legitimacy should ultimately be found in all of the people, rather
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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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