In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst ...

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A mind-blowing thought experiment to get your brain spinning. Donald Trump announces major change for school cafeterias Greenland's only US military base is (quietly) getting a massive upgrade Dozens ...

The proper resolution of the conceptual puzzle raised by Loschmidt’s demon is instructive. Imagine a glass sphere floating in space shattered by a bullet. To an observer seeing the fragments flying ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

(via TEDEd) In 1980, philosopher John Searle developed a thought experiment in response to AI advancement at the time. His aim was to interrogate whether a programmed computer has cognitive states, ...

There is a long history of doing physics by imagination. Albert Einstein built his special theory of relativity after imagining himself chasing a beam of light. Erwin Schrödinger gave us a cat that ...

A recent study published in the journal, Emotion, discusses the relationship between mind wandering and mood, and suggests that it isn’t mind wandering, itself, that is to blame for our unhappy states ...

I t must be hard to cover philosophy as a journalist. Your subject hardly moves. Not only does it fail to move the world, it barely budges from its study. Thus the movement called Effective Altruism ...