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Bad Luck Seldom Persists — But it Never Guarantees Good Luck
Many people embrace the fallacious law of averages in their daily lives when "regression toward the mean" is a more realistic picture
What Did Splitting Human Brains in Half Tell Us About the Mind?
How did split brain study subjects compare things when no part of their brains saw both things?
Medical Journal Pushes Training for Doctors on How to Kill
Chillingly, most of the doctors who participated in a small study on assisted suicide, and who prescribe poison as part of their job, like it.
Scholars Association Changes Policy, Now Backs Academic Boycotts
If AAUP members have run out of challenging new ideas themselves, they can at least suppress them when they are introduced by others
What Brain Surgery for Epilepsy Taught Us About the Human Mind
Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought
What’s Behind the World Advertiser Boycott Against X?
Elon Musk’s refusal to censor news has made him enemies in top boardrooms
Learning to Build and Create Offline as Well as On
Is the internet the only place to build and expand culture?
Is Materialism Slowly Losing Its Death Grip on Science?
If it is, neuroscience discoveries will play a key role, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor tells podcaster Pat Flynn, in a recent interview
Universal Infant Genetic Screening Pushed in Science Journal
It’s hard to opt out of a procedure that you don’t know is going to be performed. Think of the eugenic possibilities!
When an Advanced AI Faces Off Against a Five-Year-Old…
Many problems don't turn on complex reasoning but on knowing how the world works
Researcher: AI Can’t Be Conscious Because It Is Not Alive
Consciousness is not computation. Without the ability to experience events from one phase to the next (sentience), we could not really be conscious
Alien: Covenant (2017): When the Prophet Fails
Everybody trudges onto the planet in what amounts to hunting gear and they begin looking for Shaw’s ship...
A Weekend Watch: Paul Kingsnorth and Louise Perry
Who is technology serving?
Study: 25% of Coma Patients Showed Consciousness When Tested
Making contact with patients via brain scanning technology is a first step toward treatment of those who may now be deemed hopeless cases
What the Luck? How Luck Matters to Olympic and Major League Wins
One way to think about the relative importance of skill and luck is to consider the consistency of the outcomes
Trying To Refute Free Will Without Being Sure What It Is…
Stephen Barr offers some thoughts on neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky’s Determined, which argues against free will
Of course cats grieve! But how to research it …?
The challenge is separating the cat’s feelings from those of the human interpreter
Tulsi Gabbard Put on Terror Watch List. Is the Dystopia Already Here?
Tyranny is starting to rear its head in the western worldLast week, the United Kingdom warned its citizens about what they post online, noting they could be criminally prosecuted for sharing content that can “incite” violence. Free speech advocates were quick to condemn the announcement as censorial and undemocratic. But is America immune from the thought police? Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was recently put on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) terror watchlist. According to whistleblower reports, she and her husband were followed by federal agents and a team of dogs last month and checked multiple times at airports as they traveled across the United States and overseas. Local Hawaiian lawmakers sent a statement to the TSA condemning the “harassment”: The people of Hawaii love Tulsi and your actions Read More ›
