Tough decisions get calculated from a spot right above the eyes involved in impulse control
The post How Your Brain See-Saws between Risk and Reward appeared first on Nautilus.
A cascade of regret and apocalyptic short-term forecasts hit social media this week
The post AI Engineers Are Having Their Oppenheimer “Destroyer of Worlds” Moment appeared first on Nautilus.
It might be good for the birds—and you
The post What Bird Feeding Has to Do with Happiness appeared first on Nautilus.
A conversation with neuroscientist and author Antonio Damasio about intelligence, feelings, and robots
The post Does Consciousness Require a Body? appeared first on Nautilus.
Deep dreaming may be more in tune with the body than we thought
The post When Dreaming Gets Your Heart Moving appeared first on Nautilus.
Some scientists say the answers may lie in thermodynamics and other mathematical principles
The post Could Physics Help Us Solve the Mystery of Aging? appeared first on Nautilus.
Persistent poverty can accelerate cognitive decline starting in your 50s
The post Financial Struggle Can Age Your Brain appeared first on Nautilus.
Hallucination may have more to do with our shared brain chemistry with snails, insects, and sea urchins
The post Psychedelics Might Not Have Evolved to Get Humans High appeared first on Nautilus.
People who can’t see images in their minds challenge an old philosophical standby
The post What a Picture of a Dog Has to Do with Reason and Logic appeared first on Nautilus.
They could complicate the hunt for extraterrestrial life—and compromise astronaut health
The post All the Microbes That Could Survive in Space appeared first on Nautilus.
A conversation with an expert in geomythology about a wild idea
The post Can “Dante’s Inferno” Tell Us Something About Space Rocks? appeared first on Nautilus.
A new look at puma-human encounters in the mountains of California
The post How to Dodge a Mountain Lion appeared first on Nautilus.
A conversation with a philosopher about extraterrestrial and machine minds
The post Aliens Probably Have Consciousness appeared first on Nautilus.
A new view of the prisoner’s dilemma
The post Does Cooperation Beat Cheating After All? appeared first on Nautilus.
A conversation with Harvard philosopher Ian Marcus Corbin on material, biological, and spiritual belonging
The post How to Feel at Home in the Modern World appeared first on Nautilus.
Extended DMT trips could help scientists probe a new theory of reality that puts consciousness first
The post Turning the Psychedelic Experience into a Math Problem appeared first on Nautilus.
A new test for AI suggests some newer LLMs are less smart than older models
The post Looking for Signs of Intelligence in Chatbots appeared first on Nautilus.
A new healthpunk movement aims to teach physicians to use their imaginations
The post How to Heal People with Science Fiction appeared first on Nautilus.
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