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Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation
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Alan Turing was a 20th-Century English mathematician and cryptologist who is widely considered to be…
Your Brain on Literature
November 12, 2023
Cognitive science has revolutionized our understanding of the brain and how it functions. Researchers have…
Neuroscience and Free Will
May 20, 2018
We like to think of ourselves as rational agents who exercise conscious control over most…
Neuroscience and the Law
September 7, 2014
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed that certain neurological disorders, like a brain tumor, can…
The Extended Mind
May 12, 2013
The question of gay rights has become a hot button issue, with opposition taking on…
Creativity
October 17, 2010
What makes an idea or work of art creative? Can creativity be measured? Can a…
Digital Selves
October 10, 2010
Second Life and dozens of other online adventures involve creating digital selves, and millions of…
Math and the Mind
September 16, 2007
How does a bunch of grey matter in our skulls have the ability to solve…
Neurocosmetology
May 2, 2006
Progress in neuroscience may soon make possible an age of neurocosmetology: the use of drugs…
The Mystery of Mind
January 10, 2006
Modern science tells us that the mind is just the brain working. But science cannot yet…
Consciousness
April 6, 2004
Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How…
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