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Pragmatism: How Americans define truth
Pragmatism is an American philosophical movement that originated as a rebuke to abstract European philosophy. The pragmatic theory of truth argues that truth and reality only can be understood in...
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Hack your brain for better problem solving
This article was originally published on Big Think Edge.Problem-solving skills are in demand. Every job posting lists them under must-have qualifications, and every job candidate claims to possess...
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The neuroscience of branding
Effective branding can not only change how you feel about a company, it can actually change how your brain is wired.Our new series "Your Brain on Money," created in partnership with Million Stories,...
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Making memories actually involves breaking our DNA, study shows
The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA in numerous locations — more than...
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Interoception: how to improve your "gut feeling"
Our surroundings contain far more information than our conscious minds can process.Our non-conscious minds are constantly gathering information and identifying patterns.By being interoceptively...
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Why information is central to physics and the universe itself
The most important current topic in physics relates to a subject that hardly seems physical at all — information, which is central to thermodynamics and perhaps the universe itself.The "dataome" is...
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Epiphenomenalism: one of the most disturbing ideas in philosophy
Epiphenomenalism is the idea that our conscious minds serve no role in affecting the physical world.On the contrary, our thoughts are a causally irrelevant byproduct of physical processes that are...
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Bad at math? Blame your neurotransmitters
Glutamate and GABA are neurotransmitters that help regulate brain activity.Scientists have long known that both are important to learning and neuroplasticity, but their relationship to acquiring...
View ArticleWant to save more money? Start playing video games.
The word is out on gaming—it's not just something that children do for fun anymore. Games are tools that can be used to teach new skills, reduce stress, and even change behaviors by triggering...
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Gamification: can video games change our money habits?
Gamification is the process of incorporating elements of video games into a business, organization, or system, with the goal of boosting engagement or performance.Gamified personal finance apps aim to...
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The strange case of the dead-but-not-dead Tibetan monks
The bodies of some Tibetan monks remain "fresh" after what appears to be their death.Their fellow monks say they're not dead yet but in a deep, final meditative state called "thukdam."Science has not...
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Helmet worn at home shrank man's brain tumor by a third
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink.A new brain tumor treatment appeared to shrink a man's aggressive glioblastoma tumor by nearly a third — and all he had to do was...
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The power of utopian thinking: it's not just for naïve dreamers
Thomas More's Utopia presents an ideal society without money, property, violence, or inequality. It is science fiction, philosophy, and a political thought experiment rolled into one.Many commentators...
View ArticleHow to trick your brain into saving money
Thanks to evolution, humans are not great at thinking and planning long term. "The human brain just has certain tendencies," says neuroscientist Alex Korb. "We're always going to pay more attention to...
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Neurohacking: how to upgrade your mental abilities
We can improve our minds using scientifically based techniques.One person used a technique to enhance his memory, and it resulted him becoming (for a time) the highest single-day earner on the quiz...
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How generosity changes your brain
In recent decades, a growing body of research has revealed that giving to others produces numerous psychological and physiological benefits.The exact neural mechanisms underlying this remain unclear,...
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What happens in your brain when you give time or money? Altruism is often framed as an act performed for the sake of someone else without the expectation of a reward. Author Jenni Santi and psychology...
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The problem of other minds: a disturbing world of polite, smiling zombies
The problem of other minds asks how it is that we can be sure that other people have mental lives when we can only infer that this is the case from behavior and testimony.John Stuart Mill argued that...
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Naps cannot fix sleep deprivation
A lack of sufficient slow-wave sleep reduces cognitive ability.While naps can help slightly, the effect is so minor as not to be meaningful, according to a new study.The study specifically tested...
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Modern sophistry: how to debunk politicians and self-help books
In Ancient Greece, sophists were philosophers who used their intellect for personal gain rather than the pursuit of knowledge.Though the term is disappearing, sophists are not, especially in the...
View ArticleHow Apple and Nike have branded your brain
Powerful branding can not only change how you feel about a company, it can actually change how your brain is wired."We love to think of ourselves as rational. That's not how it works," says UPenn...
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If you knew the future, would you still choose your life?
When we decide to act, we either are incredibly bad at thinking through the implications or give very little thought to the future at all.A short story by Ted Chiang, "The Story of Your Life," asks us...
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Instant gratification: The neuroscience of impulse buying
A recent episode of "Your Brain on Money" explored the psychological factors behind impulse buying.Online shopping has made it harder than ever to resist impulsive purchases, which may provide instant...
View Article3 brain hacks to control your Amazon addiction (from a neuroscientist)
"From the evolutionary perspective, the human brain evolved to feel first and think later," says neuroscientist and marketing consultant Terry Wu. The part of our brain that controls emotions (the...
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Want to remember something? Maybe eat some chocolate
Sleep is essential to how we function, and one of its more important aspects is how it consolidates memories.The brain decides for us which memories we ought to keep. It does so based upon the...
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Inside Mary's Room: is a physical world all there is?
Physicalism is the idea that the world can be adequately and completely explained using physical descriptions and that even things which appear non-physical can be explained as physical.A thought...
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Your beliefs are much harder to justify than you think
Epistemic justification is the area of philosophy that asks: what counts as enough to justify a belief?Coherentism is the theory that states a belief is justified insofar as it coheres or is...
View ArticleYour reptilian brain, explained | Robert Sapolsky
What's the best way to think about the brain? While most of us think of it as a dense gray matter that's separate from the physical body, that actually couldn't be further from the truth. Our brain is...
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The secret philosophy of bonsai trees
Cultivating a bonsai tree is about more than making small, young plants appear old and aged.In the process of trying to sculpt a living, breathing, changing organism, the cultivator submits to the...
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Your three brains
The "triune brain" model dates back to the 1960s.The three brains reflect the evolutionary progress of humankind from primitive to intelligent.Sometimes the interactions between the brains can be...
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