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Cognitive Neuroscience
A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
2mins
A physician, a psychologist, and a mindfulness teacher explain what stress does to your body and mind, and how to use it to get smarter and stronger.
Unlikely Collaborators
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
7mins
A neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist discuss how emotions are stories built from old experiences.
Unlikely Collaborators
A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.
"Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be."
The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.
A universal signature could make surgeries safer — and help reveal what holds consciousness together.
These expert-recommended books try to answer the questions of consciousness, from its fundamental nature to its role in human experience and the natural world.
"For many people, the idea that consciousness is a set of tricks is offensive," the late philosopher told Big Think in 2012. "I think that's a prime mistake."
7mins
“Because of the efficiency worship that we have developed in our industrial age, we are now seeing procrastination as a character flaw rather than what it is, a signal that is worth listening to.”
In "The Microbiome Master Key," Brett and Jessica Finlay argue that we need to stop waging war on all germs and start working with the microbes that make us who we are.
Evolution may have built our brains, but it didn't build them to find truth.
1hr 16mins
“We know that as little as 10 minutes of walking can improve your mood, getting that bubble bath with the dopamine, serotonin, endorphins going. Anybody can do that.”
Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?
12mins
“The very same time that’s making you anxious is actually your most valuable asset. You can always create more energy and more money—but you can never create more time.”
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.
New research is uncovering why we eat first with our expectations.
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can't two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why.
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.
The findings suggest that biochemical and physical effects of exercise could help heal nerves.
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?