Tags: Brain
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Transplanted Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smarter: Bioethicists Wring Hands
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Study Shows Smart Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians Are Easiest to Fool
We reason to persuade, not to find truth.
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Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
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How Does the Brain Secrete Morality?
Pondering the neuroscience of moral platitudes, free will, and sacred values.
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In Search of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
A review of Who’s In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
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Too Smart for Our Own Good
Will cognitive enhancement destroy the human race?
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A Trick of the Mind
Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.