Does Drug Use Lead to Addiction, or Are Some Brains More Prone To Use Drugs?
Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction."
Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction."
In The Experience Machine, philosopher and scientist Andy Clark offers an updated theory of mind.
The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.
It's politically correct to say men and women are mentally the same, but Stossel lays out science that says otherwise.
Do you want to be in control group or the experimental group?
If neuropharmaceuticals are ethical, so are machine-brain interface technologies.
In the case of "head transplants" - it's better to be the "donor" than the recipient.
Fourth Amendment privacy is more important once our thoughts are stored outside our wetware.
It's allure is a primitive evolutionary hold over.
The Narcissist and Megalomaniac communities, however, warmly embrace the Republican presidential candidate.*
Come by at 11 am Tuesday, June 7 to hear author Robin Hanson and me.
A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
DeepMind's AlphaGo may signal the advent of the age of computational thaumaturgy
The savvy venture capitalists at Andreessen Horowitz are now banking on "smart drug" startup Nootrobox.
By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.
Discovered in retired athletes after years of blows to the head
Learning parts of brain patterns associated with touch
One person got another person's finger to twitch, but it's a start
Study with all-female players shows video games improve important cognitive skills
Also, it's impossible to find men who don't play a lot of video games
Neuroimaging is pretty cool, but it can't do what its most enthusiastic boosters claim.
Has come to terms with who he is but still doesn't remember it
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing"
We reason to persuade, not to find truth.
"It's a great big universe and we're all really puny"
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
Based on the brain's P300 signal, related to familiarity
Pondering the neuroscience of moral platitudes, free will, and sacred values.
A review of Who's In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.
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