• Educational Policy and the Extended Mind

  "I am suggesting that ?innate? intelligence no longer makes a whole lot of sense?although it still makes some sense, just like running?once we accept an externalist, ?extended? theory of mind." (The Ends of Thought)

  tags: extended-mind, education, grue

• Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died

  "From neuroscience to Nietzsche. A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism." by Tom Wolfe

  tags: mind, brains, neuroscience, future, grue

• Helen Fisher studies the brain in love

  "Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped." | Video on TED.com

  tags: brains, love, emotion, grue

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