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How Our Tech-Obsessed Age Responds to Grief: Grieftech

Just when we thought that the chatbot craze couldn’t get crazier — departed loved ones get uploaded as chatbots

Grieftech poses genuine problems when avatars seem to keep the deceased unchanged in a changing world — or change just when we want them to.

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Science Can Fully Explain Consciousness? By 326 Theories…

To call consciousness studies a degenerating paradigm might be too charitable. How much of it rises to the level of falsification?

It’s supposed to be a given that machines or brain organoids might be conscious despite not knowing what that is or how it works — but preborn children can’t be…

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Science on Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs Explaining Away

The first rule of a scientific approach to near-death experiences should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis

The reason medical researchers now take NDEs seriously is a growing body of evidence that can’t just be tossed off with a simple explanation.

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