Religion Dispatches
Facebook and Elon Musk have recently announced ventures that could transform what it means to be human. The potential is enormous—but so are the risks.
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When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of…
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The cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter is well known for his pioneering work on artificial intelligence,…
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The neurophilosopher, whose latest book argues that the brain is all we are, discusses yoga, her awkward talk with the Dalai Lama, the soul and what makes her want to tell someone to just “bugger off!”
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In her latest book Patricia Churchland eschews the simplistic reductions of popular media in favor of nuanced and self-consciously incomplete explanations, but it does share one shortcoming that plagues her peers.
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