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Me, myself and others

Stephen Fleming

Knowing what to believe

Free will: an impossible reality

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What physicists get wrong about consciousness

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The brain doesn't create consciousness

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Uri Maoz,Liad Mudrik

Are you responsible for your unconscious self?

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Éric Fourneretis

The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink

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Moral responsibility without free will

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Stuart Hameroff

Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

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Dana Kay Nelkin,Derk Pereboom

Free will or no free will, punishment is justified

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The impotence of reason

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Donald Hoffman,Robert Prentner

Schrödinger and the conscious universe

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Bernardo Kastrup

Why panpsychism is baloney

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David M. Peña-Guzmán

Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams

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The free will debate has real-world consequences

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Alexis Papazoglou

Denis Noble: Free will is not an illusion

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Consciousness may not require a brain

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Susan Schneider,Alexis Papazoglou

Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious

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Pinker on the power of irrationality

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Future AI in the therapist's chair

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Nevin Climenhaga

When are intuitions a good guide to reality?

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Bernard Reginster

Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free

Charlie Barnett,Rory Sutherland

Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality

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Hanna Damasio,Antonio Damasio

Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

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David Bentley Hart

The absurdity of mind as machine

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Charlie Barnett

Is rationality a fiction?

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Bernardo Kastrup

Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness

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David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

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Katherine Puddifoot

Bias doesn't always undermine truth

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Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy