Lust and the Turing Test
By and large, we watch movies to be entertained, not to be provoked into deep thought. Occasionally, a film does …
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How the Computer Beat the Go Master
As a leading go player falls to a machine, artificial intelligence takes a decisive step on the road to overtaking …
Panpsychism
Panpsychism, the ancient doctrine that consciousness is ubiquitous, offers some lessons in how to think about subjective experience today. Published …
Phi – A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
In the end, consciousness is all that matters! So writes Giulio Tononi, the author of this stunningly original scientific fantasy, …
Movies in the cortical theater
Functional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip. [PDF]
Sex and Violence
Using optical and genetic techniques, neuroscientists have identified an “on/off” switch for aggression in the brain. [PDF]
Fatal Attraction
Some protozoa infect the brain of their host, shaping its behavior in ways most suited to the pathogen, even if …
Think different
The ways in which brains differ from one another shows up in the way their owners perceive the world. [PDF]
Dream states
Although we rarely remember our nighttime reveries, they may hold the key to consciousness. [PDF]
