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the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal's “death feint.”
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?
There’s a psychological reason you haven’t created healthier habits in your life.
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Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
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Experiences that put you in a state of flow are shown to override PTSD and heartbreak.
Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.
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Are sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll actually good for you?
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
Anesthesia causes animals and humans to lose consciousness. A study found it has a similar effect on Venus flytraps.
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman shares what he learned by studying the brain waves of Olympic-level meditators, and his findings are unprecedented.
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The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
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Philosophers have been making the claim that free will is an illusion for hundreds of years. Dr. Uri Maoz shares what modern neuroscience has to say about it.
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Historical geniuses used the "creative nap" to give their minds a boost. Apparently, the "hypnagogic state" can help with problem solving.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
Our brains might be flooded with the hallucinogen DMT as we die, leading to vivid dreams.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
It’s not a question we know enough to know the answer to, but to dismiss the possibility is scientifically baseless. There’s one question that most of us ask at some […]