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“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in...
For as long as humans have thought, humans have thought about thinking. George Cave on the power and the limits of the metaphors we’ve used to do that… For thousands of years, humans have described...
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“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created...
Christof Koch settles his bet with David Chalmers (with a case of wine) … perhaps especially not the problem of consciousness itself. At least for now… A 25-year science wager has come to an end. In...
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“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve...
The author, far left, as a very young child Our first three years are usually a blur, and we don’t remember much before age seven. Kristin Ohlson wondered why… … Freud argued that we repress our...
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“Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite,...
Inside the Chaturbhuj Temple in India (left), a wall inscription features the oldest known instance of the digit zero, dated to 876 CE (right). It is part of the number 270. … and like infinity, zero...
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless”*…
Still, it’s useful to know the difference… and as Yasemin Saplakoglu explains, that’s a complex process– one that science takes very seriously… As I sit at my desk typing up this newsletter, I can see...
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