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  luca vanz

  

  Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

  The New Yorker - Elizabeth Kolbert

  New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a random individual, the other …

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  luca vanz

  

  Moral luck

  Aeon Magazine - by Robert J Hartman

  Two people drive drunk at night: one kills a pedestrian, one doesn’t. Does the unlucky killer deserve more blame or not? There is a contradiction in …

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  luca vanz

  

  Beyond the Five Senses

  The Atlantic - Matthew Hutson

  Telepathy, echolocation, and the future of perception The world we experience is not the real world. It’s a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world change if we had new and different senses? Could they expand our universe? Technology …

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  luca vanz

  

  Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

  waitbutwhy.com - Tim Urban

  Note: If you want to print this post or read it offline, the PDF is probably the way to go. You can buy it here. And here’s a G-rated version of the …

• We are increasingly relying on machines that derive conclusions from models that they themselves have created, models that are often beyond human comprehension, models that “think” about the world dif …

  

  luca vanz

  

  Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand

  backchannel.com - David Weinberger

  The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the …

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  luca vanz

  10 scariest theories known to man.

  imgur.com

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