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What are you? According to science, you are a collection of material particles, a complex machine, completely devoid of any inherent meaning. According to certain religions, you are a divine, conscious soul with the capacity to feel and love, imbued with meaning and cosmic significance. How did we ... Read Full article on HadNews.com

Earlier this year, Neuralink implanted a chip inside the brain of 29-year-old US man Noland Arbaugh, who is paralysed from the shoulders down. The chip has enabled Arbaugh to move a mouse pointer on a screen just by imagining it moving. In May 2023, US researchers also announced a non-invasive way to “decode” the words someone is thinking from brain scans in combination with generative AI. A similar project sparked headlines about a “mind-reading AI hat”. Can neural implants and generative AI really “read minds”? Is the day coming when computers can spit out accurate real-time transcripts of our thoughts for anyone to read? Such tec...... Read Full article on HadNews

Will Dowd lost his ability to read over a decade ago. He has a condition called binocular vision disorder, which makes it difficult to coordinate his eyes. Words drift across the page, getting tangled up in one another, and the pain of trying to extract meaning from the resulting quagmire gives him debilitating migraines. Dowd had been an obsessive, devoted reader—a poet and MIT-trained science writer who lived mostly in the world of paper and ink—so the condition left him feeling exiled from himself.  The act of dreaming was the only other time Dowd felt the readerly combination of total absorption and flight, and so he wondered: Could ther...... Read Full article on HadNews

Donald Hoffman’s Theory on Consciousness is a mind-bending exploration into the very nature of reality and perception. The idea that our senses could be misleading us, creating an illusion of the world around us, challenges our fundamental understanding of existence. Hoffman’s groundbreaking work in cognitive psychology invites us to question if what we perceive as reality is simply a sophisticated computer interface skillfully designed by our brains. Hoffman’s theory proposes that consciousness, rather than space-time and physical objects, is fundamental. This challenges traditional notions of reality and calls into question the very ...... Read Full article on HadNews

Have you ever noticed that time slows down while you’re traveling somewhere new yet flies by when you’re steeped in your everyday routine? Doesn’t this seem to contradict the old saying “time flies when you’re having fun”? Although scientists generally agree on the basics of how we see, hear, think, and plan, time perception largely remains a mystery, with little consensus on how it’s processed in the brain.  Recently, some researchers have been turning toward the body — the heart, specifically — to explore how we subjectively process time. Their findings not only solve part of the mystery but also suggest that we can influence our sense of ...... Read Full article on HadNews