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Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how they compare to others’

Mind

Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how they compare to others’

We finally have a grasp on the many different ways of thinking and how your inner mindscape affects your experience of reality

Features

Mind

How your brain stays focused on conversations in a noisy room

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Neuralink says it has permission to conduct its first human trials

Technology

Elon Musk's brain implant firm Neuralink gets approval for human trial

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Why we’re trapped in short-term thinking and how to take the long view

Society

Why we’re trapped in short-term thinking and how to take the long view

Features

A woman partially paralysed by stroke was able to use utensils to eat independently after spinal cord stimulation

Health

Spinal cord stimulation helps people with stroke regain arm movement

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Understanding human intentions will be the next big breakthrough in AI

Technology

Understanding human intentions will be the next big breakthrough in AI

Features

A person with tetraplegia uses a mind-controlled wheelchair as part of a trial

Health

People with paralysis navigate a room via a mind-controlled wheelchair

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Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence

Technology

Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence

Comment

Why does time fly or drag? How emotions warp our temporal perceptions

Mind

Why does time fly or drag? How emotions warp our temporal perceptions

Features

3 How Do We Sense Time? Mechanical brain, conceptual image. Composite image of coloured medical imagery of a human brain and skull, with cogs and gears representing concepts such as memory, time and mechanical brains. The imagery includes 3D computed tomography (CT) scans of the skull and 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain. The scans are of a 30-year-old woman.

Mind

How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

Recent studies suggest there is not one part of the brain dedicated to measuring duration, as there is for senses like taste and smell. Instead, the passage of time is tracked by a network of “time cells”

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Technology

Hybrid AI: A new way to make machine minds that really think like us

Features

Mind

David Chalmers interview: Virtual reality is as real as real reality

Features

Question

What are the four main theories of consciousness?

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Consciousness

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