Is the Human Brain a Prediction Machine?
In The Experience Machine, philosopher and scientist Andy Clark offers an updated theory of mind.
Brain
Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating
The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.
Stossel: The Science Around Male Brains vs. Female Brains
It's politically correct to say men and women are mentally the same, but Stossel lays out science that says otherwise.
Will the New '100 Percent Fatal' Mind-Uploading Service Work?
Do you want to be in control group or the experimental group?
Are Brain Implants to Control Moods Ethical?
If neuropharmaceuticals are ethical, so are machine-brain interface technologies.
First Whole Body Transplant Is 'Imminent'
In the case of "head transplants" - it's better to be the "donor" than the recipient.
Zuckerberg and Musk Aim to Make Telepathy a Reality
Fourth Amendment privacy is more important once our thoughts are stored outside our wetware.
Why Is Socialism So Damned Attractive? New at Reason
It's allure is a primitive evolutionary hold over.
Stop Calling Trump 'Crazy,' Pleads Mental Health Advocate
The Narcissist and Megalomaniac communities, however, warmly embrace the Republican presidential candidate.*
Ronald Bailey Comments on The Age of Em at Cato Tomorrow
Come by at 11 am Tuesday, June 7 to hear author Robin Hanson and me.
Billions of Artificial Robot Brains Take Over the World: New at Reason
A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Artificial Robot Brains Take Over the World
A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Computers as Oracles: True Answers We Won't Understand
DeepMind's AlphaGo may signal the advent of the age of computational thaumaturgy
Bringing Biohacking to the Masses Is Latest Aim of Andreessen Horowitz
The savvy venture capitalists at Andreessen Horowitz are now banking on "smart drug" startup Nootrobox.
Hacking the Programs in Your Mind: Interview with Evolutionary Psychologists Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.
'Profound Abnormalities' Found in Brains of Football Players
Discovered in retired athletes after years of blows to the head
Scientists Work on Innovating Prosthetics That Can Actually Feel
Learning parts of brain patterns associated with touch
Researchers Demonstrate Successful Mind Control
One person got another person's finger to twitch, but it's a start
The Job Market Needs More Women Gamers
Study with all-female players shows video games improve important cognitive skills
Strategic Video Games Like StarCraft Improve Problem-Solving Skills
Also, it's impossible to find men who don't play a lot of video games
The Gray Areas of Gray Matter
Neuroimaging is pretty cool, but it can't do what its most enthusiastic boosters claim.
Navy Vet Found in Hotel With Amnesia, Speaking Only Swedish
Has come to terms with who he is but still doesn't remember it
White House Wants to Fund Brain Research
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing"
Study Shows Smart Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians Are Easiest to Fool
We reason to persuade, not to find truth.
Human Brain, Internet and Universe Similar in Structure
"It's a great big universe and we're all really puny"
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.
Scientists "Hack" Brain, Procedure Could Be Used for Lie Detection
Based on the brain's P300 signal, related to familiarity
How Does the Brain Secrete Morality?
Pondering the neuroscience of moral platitudes, free will, and sacred values.
In Search of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
A review of Who's In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
A Trick of the Mind
Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.
