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Brain scanners and AI can turn brainwaves into streams of text – but language only captures a tiny fraction of our mental experience.
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AI will not become sentient and decide to kill us all. But our own conscious or unconscious beliefs about AI can potentially increase the likelihood of any outcome, including catastrophic ones.
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The mind is a powerful thing – it can generate both symptoms of illness and symptoms of healing. Here’s what this could tell us about consciousness.
When our bodies are moving, our minds are more open to learning.
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Whether they’re in a classroom or online, students should be encouraged to move around. An expert on learning with technology explains why.
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Non-specific illnesses, such as headache and fatigue, are common, as are mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.
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The pandemic has exposed some truths about human psychology and behaviour.
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We are in a battle for our minds. And it isn’t clear we will win.
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Three classic examples of the “Mandala Effect” debunked.
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Video feedback may be the nearest we have to visualising what conscious processing in the brain is like.
Encouraging physical activity in the playground, in classrooms and before and after school can help.
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Compulsory sport and physical education at school will improve children’s memory, attention and ability to concentrate, not just boost fitness. The evidence is in.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging could reveal whether someone knows something they’re not telling.
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Using mind reading technologies in court could become common practice.
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Neuroscientists are questioning how it is that physical matter comes together to make the mind.
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fMRI brain scans are coming frighteningly close to opening a window into our thoughts.
Changes in arousal can alter introspective confidence.
Scientists are increasingly working out that the body actually shapes the mind. New research even raises hopes about new treatments for mental health problems.
Thinking strange thoughts does not necessarily mean you’re deluded.
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We cannot think thoughts that are not ours - but there are still those who claim to have external thoughts being put into their heads.
The brain processes different facial features separately, so how does it tie them together?
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Different parts of our brains process different things, like the facial features, voices and the gait of people we know. But it takes memory to weave them all together into a single picture.
Are compound eyes the window to the soul?
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Insects have similar structures in their brains as do we, and that might mean that have a basic form of consciousness.
Consciousness might emerge from a particular kind of information processing.
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Consciousness is one of the most mysterious phenomena we know of. But evidence is emerging that it might just be a very special kind of information processing.
£33m lottery winners David and Carol Martin.
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Coming into a fortune is definitely not the route to happiness. Here’s what you can do to stay chipper.