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Nicholas Humphrey
Theoretical psychologist, author, Soul Dust.
Theoretical psychologist whose books include Soul Dust. His study of primate psychology led him to a radical new theory of human consciousness.
Theoretical psychologist whose books include Soul Dust. His study of primate psychology led him to a radical new theory of human consciousness.
Nicholas Humphrey Videos
Knowing Others and Knowing Oneself
Are the minds of others profoundly unknowable?
The Evolution of Suicide
Nicholas Humphrey | Self-killing's genetic history
The Secrets of Consciousness
Can the brain explain experience?
Is Religion Dangerous?
Faith - The Problem or The Solution
Nicholas Humphrey Articles
More Videos
Secrets of the Mind
Can science explain consciousness?
The Mind's Eye
Consciousness and the soul
The Evolution of Suicide
Nicholas Humphrey | Self-killing's genetic history
The Uniqueness of Humanity
Is evolution progress?
Life's Secret
Purpose and the Pursuit of Happiness
The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures
Nature's Hidden Persuaders
The evolution of the placebo effect
Entering the Soul Niche
How a belief in it has kept humanity going
More Articles
CRISPR's Brave New World
Science is based in metaphor
Rewriting the code of life
The moral case for eugenics?
The false promise of human gene editing
A new paradigm to understand pain
Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope
Looking at genes through a human lens
The mystery and origins of play
Biology's Uncertainty Principle
The fight for the future of biology
Nature didn't make us human, culture did
From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation
Too much pleasure causes pain
How science makes politics absurd
Cracking the creation of life
The ocean is the engine of the Earth
The microorganism that shaped humanity
We risk turning life into an illness
The Brave New World of synthetic humans
The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here
The mystery of living things
A new theory of matter may help explain life
The mind-body problem is ruining our health
Suspended Ethics?
A New Science of Life
The Persecution of Heretics
Who First into the Ark?
An Enemy of The Open Society
Life, agency, and the evolution of free will