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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

  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 has long been used to help people who have lost, or …

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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 differently than we do.
  
  But this comes with a price. This infusion of alien intelligence is bringing into question the assumptions embedded in our long Western tradition. 

  

  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

  16405 votes and 599922 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet