Neurorights in Chile: The Philosophical Debate online March 17-19

To be clear, ‘effective’ in this context means ‘strikingly convincing in some respects’, rather than anything that might trouble the Turing Test. The interesting results wrought by the model can appear eerily on point, apparently written with intelligence, intention, and…

This week the Brains Blog will host a series of posts by Heidi Maibom about her exciting new book, The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works! Please join us for the posts and engage in discussion in the comments board!…

The thing about being poor is not that you can’t be happy – and we were very happy, just the three of us with nothing – but that you are also scared, cold, hungry, uncertain and tired a lot of…

Cognitive ontology, a domain concerned with the classification and organization of mental phenomena, plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and function of the mind. Within this framework, episodic memory is a fascinating subject due to its unique characteristics…

In a recent conversation on the blog, Sandy Grant argues that Stoicism thrived during slavery and women’s oppression, in which case it makes sense that Stoicism was popular then, because it helped people live with being oppressed. However, she suggests that…

‘O Ramachandra! Fasting on Mohini Ekadashi removes the darkest illusory attachments to material existence. There is thus no better fast day in all the three worlds than this.’” ‘Hungry and gripped with anxiety, he wondered what he would do, where…