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Philosophy

Free will

Mind

Free will: Can neuroscience reveal if your choices are yours to make?

Philosophers have wrestled with the question of whether we are truly free to decide on our actions for centuries. Now, insights from genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology are shedding fresh light on the issue

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Humans

What is longtermism and why do its critics think it is dangerous?

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Mind

Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination

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Humans

Anaximander review: Did Anaximander create science, asks Carlo Rovelli

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Physics

How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

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Humans

Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined?

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Philip Pullman

Humans

Philip Pullman: ‘A story聽will help us make sense of anything’

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Humans

The Good Place review: It is over, but I鈥檓 never going to say goodbye

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Mind

The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

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Scientific truth

Scientific truth

Karl Popper

Humans

How humans evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative

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Humans

How to think about… Scientific truth

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Humans

How to think about… Logic

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