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Riccardo Manzotti

Riccardo Manzotti is a philosopher, psychologist, and AI expert and the author of The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One.

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Riccardo Manzotti is a philosopher, psychologist, and AI expert and the author of The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One.

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Riccardo Manzotti

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Psychoanalysis vs CBT: uncovering the unconscious
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Why courage is critical to morality
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The feedback loop from hell
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Scott A. Small

Forgetting is more important than remembering
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Ronald Riggio

The truth about the Myers–Briggs personality test
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Reality and mental disorder
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Noga Arikha

When memory fails, imagination fails with it
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Arne Dietrich

Madness and Genius
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Don Forsyth

Mental health is contagious
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Scott Barry Kaufman

Creativity is not a right brain phenomenon
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Julie M. Albright

Phone addiction is worse than smoking or cocaine
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Hilary Rose

The Problematic Rise of Big Neuro
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Mark Salter

The Bipolar Construct
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Mental Health: Visions of the Future
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The End of Psychology?
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Katerina Apostolides

Philosophy, Therapy and the Search for Meaning
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Juan R. Loaiza

The hidden logic behind emotions
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The difficulty of defining death
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The neurodivergence paradox
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More openness around suicide could help prevent it
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Overcoming illness with your life story
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New theory of placebos reframes mind-body problem
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The hidden risks of Neuralink
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The existential cure for the mental health crisis
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The reality gap
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The man who mistook reality for a fantasy
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