Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...
Stimulation Clicker satirizes how it can feel to mainline the web by filling up the screen with internet videos, stock charts and Duolingo questions. There’s email to answer, too.
While social media has the potential to empower storytelling, it can also spread misinformation and lead to brain rot.
An interview with Karl Friston, a computational psychiatrist and an architect of an AI developed to emulate natural intelligence using active inference, physics and fuzzy logic.
The script always had a soul, a second layer — it’s not just about a plot or a story; there’s something deep behind it. It ...
The next time you feel the pressure to do more, rebel a little. Sink into your sofa, let your thoughts drift, and master the ...
Looking at AI art shows that machines may never truly understand the human mind, as there are states of mind that can never ...
Imagine a place where you can experience entire universes. A space that will make you rethink the limits of human capability.
I discussed how the interaction between three particular brain networks supports creative thinking: the executive attention network, the default mode network (which I called the “imagination ...
“If you bring those same people into the sleep laboratory and wake them up during an active stage of sleep and ask what they were thinking ... as a result of brain damage or disease in specific ...
Although no single food can improve mental sharpness, focus, and memory, some research shows that a nutrient-rich diet with plenty of omega-3 fats, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals is important ...
I reached out to The Logoff’s creator and daily author, Vox’s senior politics and ideas editor Patrick Reis, to get a better idea of how he’s thinking about these thorny questions, and happily, he ...