It’s hard to make decisions that will change your life. It’s even harder to make a decision if you know […]
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The Convention on Psychotropic Substances was a 1971 United Nations treaty that placed strong restrictions on the use of psychedelic
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Wilfrid Sellars described the task of philosophy as explaining how things, in the broadest sense of term, hang together, in
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Artificial intelligence is better than humans at playing chess or go, but still has trouble holding a conversation or driving
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All of us have been wrong about things from time to time. But sometimes it was a simple, forgivable mistake,
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Memory takes different forms. Memories can be encoded in the strength of neural connections in our brains, but there’s a
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It doesn’t mean much to say music affects your brain — everything that happens to you affects your brain. But
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It’s fun to spend time thinking about how other people should behave, but fortunately we also have an inner voice
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When we talk about the mind, we are constantly talking about consciousness and cognition. Antonio Damasio wants us to talk
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