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Link "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"
Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed…

May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments
Twitter Links Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris
I have noticed that some readers continue to find my argument about the illusoriness of free will difficult to accept. Apart from religious believers…

April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments
Twitter Links Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions
In life-threatening conditions, microbes use game theory to account for neighbors’ decisions and work out their best tactics for survival. New research presented at…

March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments
Twitter Links In the very near future the act of remembering will become a choice.
Traumatic, persistent memories are indeed a case of recall gone awry. But as a treatment, CISD misapprehends how memory works. It suggests that the…

February 18 2012, 7:21am | Comments
Link Toxoplasma is creeping into our brains, causing everything…
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his…

February 9 2012, 10:21am | Comments
Link Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human…
Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience,…

November 23 2011, 3:53am | Comments
Link Interactive Art: What Video Games Can Learn from…
What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice? There’s a reason it’s high praise, not criticism, to say that a film or a piece of…

January 8 2011, 8:38am | Comments
Link Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves
Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with…

October 22 2010, 9:12am | Comments
Link Your Move: The Maze of Free Will
You may have heard of determinism, the theory that absolutely everything that happens is causally determined to happen exactly as it does by what has already gone before — right…

August 11 2010, 3:19am | Comments
Link The Limits of the Coded World
In an influential article in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, Joshua Gold of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Shadlen of the University of Washington sum up experiments aimed at…

August 11 2010, 3:07am | Comments
Link Are Animals People?
The recent fatal attack of a SeaWorld trainer by the orca Tilikum has led to renewed questions about how humans should deal with potentially intelligent animals. Was Tilikum’s action premeditated,…

March 27 2010, 5:18pm | Comments

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