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Brain

Illustration of brains | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

Science

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."

Ronald Bailey | 6.22.2025 6:30 AM

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Cognitive Science

Is the Human Brain a Prediction Machine?

In The Experience Machine, philosopher and scientist Andy Clark offers an updated theory of mind.

Brian L. Keeley | 2.20.2024 6:00 AM

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Medicine

Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating

The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.

Jacob Sullum | 12.29.2022 7:00 AM

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Neuroscience

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.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 10.15.2019 8:40 AM

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Brain

Will the New '100 Percent Fatal' Mind-Uploading Service Work?

Do you want to be in control group or the experimental group?

Ronald Bailey | 3.16.2018 11:15 AM

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Brain

Are Brain Implants to Control Moods Ethical?

If neuropharmaceuticals are ethical, so are machine-brain interface technologies.

Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2017 3:20 PM

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Organ transplants

First Whole Body Transplant Is 'Imminent'

In the case of "head transplants" - it's better to be the "donor" than the recipient.

Ronald Bailey | 11.17.2017 1:45 PM

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Singularity

Zuckerberg and Musk Aim to Make Telepathy a Reality

Fourth Amendment privacy is more important once our thoughts are stored outside our wetware.

Ronald Bailey | 4.20.2017 5:00 PM

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Socialism

Why Is Socialism So Damned Attractive? New at Reason

It's allure is a primitive evolutionary hold over.

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2016 2:50 PM

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Socialism

Why Is Socialism So Damned Attractive?

Because evolution wired our brains for it.

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2016 1:30 PM

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Uploading

Transhumanism Is Inevitable

And that's a very good thing.

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2016 1:30 PM

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Donald Trump

Stop Calling Trump 'Crazy,' Pleads Mental Health Advocate

The Narcissist and Megalomaniac communities, however, warmly embrace the Republican presidential candidate.*

Ronald Bailey | 8.12.2016 11:20 AM

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Singularity

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.

Ronald Bailey | 6.6.2016 9:45 AM

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Brain

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

Ronald Bailey | 6.3.2016 1:30 PM

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Politics

Artificial Robot Brains Take Over the World

A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

Ronald Bailey | 6.3.2016 1:29 PM

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Artificial Intelligence

Computers as Oracles: True Answers We Won't Understand

DeepMind's AlphaGo may signal the advent of the age of computational thaumaturgy

Ronald Bailey | 1.27.2016 4:33 PM

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Science & Technology

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.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.8.2015 8:35 AM

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Politics

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.

Justin Monticello and Nick Gillespie | 5.13.2015 1:32 PM

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Culture

The Internet Is Changing Your Brain, Like Everything Else

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.14.2014 2:45 PM

Brain

Proof of Life After Death? Maybe Not.

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2014 1:32 PM

Science & Technology

More Evidence of Widespread Brain Disease Among Former NFL Players

Reason Staff | 10.1.2014 11:35 AM

Policy

Study of Pot Smokers' Brains Shows That MRIs Cause Bad Science Reporting

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2014 3:41 PM

Policy

Pentagon Exploring Brain Implants for Soldiers

Alyssa Hertig | 2.11.2014 1:20 PM

Culture

'Profound Abnormalities' Found in Brains of Football Players

Discovered in retired athletes after years of blows to the head

Reason Staff | 10.17.2013 2:10 PM

Science & Technology

Scientists Work on Innovating Prosthetics That Can Actually Feel

Learning parts of brain patterns associated with touch

Reason Staff | 10.15.2013 7:40 PM

Culture

Video Games Can Help Older People Boost Brain's Ability

Young at brain, so to speak

Reason Staff | 9.5.2013 12:20 PM

Science & Technology

Tiny Human Brains Grown in Lab

About the size of peas

Reason Staff | 8.29.2013 5:00 PM

Science & Technology

Researchers Demonstrate Successful Mind Control

One person got another person's finger to twitch, but it's a start

Reason Staff | 8.28.2013 9:00 AM

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Economics

The Job Market Needs More Women Gamers

Study with all-female players shows video games improve important cognitive skills

Scott Shackford | 8.26.2013 5:37 PM

Culture

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

Reason Staff | 8.26.2013 1:00 PM

Science & Technology

Higher Blood Sugar Tied to Dementia

Even among those without diabetes

Reason Staff | 8.8.2013 3:20 PM

Culture

The Gray Areas of Gray Matter

Neuroimaging is pretty cool, but it can't do what its most enthusiastic boosters claim.

Jacob Sullum | 8.6.2013 10:30 AM

Science & Technology

Scientists Implant False Memories in Mice

Now where did I put that cheese...?

Reason Staff | 7.25.2013 6:20 PM

Culture

Navy Vet Found in Hotel With Amnesia, Speaking Only Swedish

Has come to terms with who he is but still doesn't remember it

Reason Staff | 7.16.2013 9:24 AM

Science & Technology

Cyborgian Immortality by 2045

Ronald Bailey | 6.3.2013 12:03 PM

Science & Technology

Transplanted Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smarter: Bioethicists Wring Hands

Ronald Bailey | 3.8.2013 2:02 PM

Science & Technology

Scientists Find Neural Networks in Humans Not Shared by Monkeys

Homo sapiens #1

Reason Staff | 2.25.2013 9:40 AM

Politics

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"

Reason Staff | 2.19.2013 8:36 AM

Politics

Study Shows Smart Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians Are Easiest to Fool

We reason to persuade, not to find truth.

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2012 4:30 PM

Science & Technology

Human Brain, Internet and Universe Similar in Structure

"It's a great big universe and we're all really puny"

Reason Staff | 11.26.2012 11:56 AM

Policy

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.

Ronald Bailey | 10.2.2012 4:00 PM

Science & Technology

Scientists "Hack" Brain, Procedure Could Be Used for Lie Detection

Based on the brain's P300 signal, related to familiarity

Reason Staff | 8.27.2012 7:50 AM

Culture

How Does the Brain Secrete Morality?

Pondering the neuroscience of moral platitudes, free will, and sacred values.

Ronald Bailey | 3.21.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

In Search of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

A review of Who's In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain

Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Too Smart for Our Own Good

Will cognitive enhancement destroy the human race?

Ronald Bailey | 9.20.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

A Trick of the Mind

Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.

Ronald Bailey | 8.2.2011 4:30 PM

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