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Business
What the forest can teach us about resilience
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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The Well
Can picture books change the world?
Sikh American scholar and historian Simran Jeet Singh on helping kids imagine — and create — a more empathetic world.
Simran Jeet Singh
John Templeton Foundation
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Neuropsych
Why the 21st century could bring a new “consciousness winter”
A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.
Ross Pomeroy
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6 questions about consciousness with Annaka Harris
A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.
Adam Frank
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Neuropsych
What the stages of sleep reveal about consciousness
"Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be."
Rachel Barr
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Neuropsych
Why AI gets stuck in infinite loops — but conscious minds don’t
The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.
Anil Seth
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Neuropsych
“Pure awareness”: Inside the psychedelic that erases space, time, and self
5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.
Christopher Timmermann
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