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22/10/2019 - 17:04
  magine that a person’s brain could be scanned in great detail and recreated in a computer simulation. The person’s mind and...
17/01/2019 - 19:36
“I can trace everything I do now to computer games like Donkey Kong that I hacked in the 1980s,” Cerf tells ISRAEL21c. Now a 41-year-old...
22/02/2018 - 10:51
“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central...
21/02/2018 - 15:36
It has long been known that these folds and wrinkles are meant to enable the brain to be compressed into the space of a skull, and that...
16/02/2018 - 15:21
There are two premises that lead Cerf to believe personal company is the most important factor for long-term satisfaction. The first is...
09/01/2018 - 16:03
Her dismissiveness wasn’t a surprise. By any measure, Freud was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Following his...
27/04/2017 - 13:16
Now, something new has occurred that, again, quietly changed the world forever. Like a whispered word in a foreign language, you may have...
02/04/2017 - 15:07
Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For...
27/08/2015 - 14:50
That code was unraveled by the discovery that adhesion proteins — the glue that keeps cells together — interact with the microprocessor, a...
27/08/2015 - 14:10
Yehuda and her colleagues focused on what is referred to as "epigenetic inheritance" -- the idea that environmental factors can affect the...
18/08/2015 - 20:03
The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the...
10/08/2015 - 11:31
The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the...

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