Biology | Neuroscience
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Chapter one
Brains
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
The Intelligent Life of Droids
If robots can be devious, self-righteous, and expressive, why not sentient?
Ideas | Cognitive Science
Consciousness Is Just a Feeling
With help from Freud, this neuropsychologist locates consciousness in choice.
Chapter two
Dreams
Biology | Psychology
What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?
The potential to hack our dreams opens a new frontier for mental research.
Biology | Psychology
How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter
To break the tape loop in your head, talk to yourself as another person.
Matter | Astronomy
Comets Are More Dangerous Than We Thought
Could a comet, not an asteroid, have killed the dinosaurs?
Chapter three
Aliens
Ideas | Evolution
How Intelligent Could Life Be Without Natural Selection?
Don’t be surprised if alien life forms are a lot like us.
Matter | Physics
The Charmed Life of Frank Wilczek
A novelist gets a physicist to explain his scientific breakthroughs.
Biology | Evolution
Life Beyond Human Has to Play by the Rules
A zoologist explains why complex life anywhere depends on natural selection.
Chapter four
Evolutions
Ideas | Economics
I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand
A prominent evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism.
Culture | Physics
This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Director Christopher Nolan could take a tip from new research into “closed timelike curves.”
Culture | Fiction
Blackout in the Brain Lab
What will happen to the organoids? A work of fiction.
Chapter five
Machines
Biology | Neuroscience
The Trouble with Brain Scans
An aspiring cognitive scientist faces the sketchy truth about fMRI.
Culture | Health
A Quiet Path Out of the Coronavirus Shadow
Mindfulness helped this ER doctor through a dark time. It can help us through these times.
Ideas | Art
I Am Not a Machine. Yes You Are.
Debating the impact of machine-created art.
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