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Euclid as Founding Father

We hold this mathematics to be self evident

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Is Tribalism a Natural Malfunction?

What computers teach us about getting along

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Should You Tell Everyone They’re Honest?

People try to live up to their labels

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A New View of Time

Introducing the Nautilus Time Project

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Ingenious: Mazviita Chirimuuta

Color is a dance between your brain and the world

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Trying Not to Try

Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us similar stories about how we think

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Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute

The emperor of physics defends his controversial…

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Most of the left side of Captain Picard’s face is covered with a Borg maskthat shines a red laser into the camera.

Pre-Conscious Humans May Have Been Like the Borg

Does an alien race from Star Trek tell the story of…

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A lab technician places a VR headset onto someone’s head.

You Can’t Upload Your ‘Self’ Into Virtual Reality

Thomas Metzinger on the nature of subjective…

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Do Aliens Have Inalienable Rights?

What ET teaches us about our moral obligations