Tag results for: brains and behavior
Empathy in the Age of AI
If you think your dog loves you, you’re a fool. If you feel a kinship with a tree, you’re a hippie. And if you over-empathize with a wild...
Collective Mental Time Travel Can Influence the Future
We’re often told to “be here now.” Yet the mind is rarely tethered in place. We take mental trips to our past, revisiting what happened yesterday or when...
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory of labeled data. An image might be labeled “tabby...
Why Therapy Is Broken
Even for people who have the time and money to choose, it’s hard to know what to look for. In the absence of a referral or personal recommendation,...
Why Therapy Is Broken
Even for people who have the time and money to choose, it’s hard to know what to look for. In the absence of a referral or personal recommendation,...
How ‘The Dress’ Sparked a Neuroscience Breakthrough
Back in 2015, before Brexit, before Trump, before Macedonian internet trolls, before QAnon and Covid conspiracy theories, before fake news and alternative facts, the disagreement over the Dress...
