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Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain

“Why does consciousness have to be something that’s created? Why isn’t consciousness something that can be accessed and tapped into? I think of the brain as being more like our smartphone, that it’s got different apps and some of us have apps that others of us don’t.”

— Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell

Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

Patricia Churchland

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius 2,000 years later, as a neuroscientist, I can tell you he was right. Philosophy discovered what neuroscience proved: You're not stuck with the brain you have. You're building the brain you're becoming.

Dr. Dominic Ng substack.com

Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

Patricia Churchland

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ARIA Opportunity Space: Nature Computes Better

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Yet the contents of our hidden depths seem to remain perpetually elusive. Freudian psychoanalysts can speculate about our hidden fears and desires; psychologists and neuroscientists can attempt to draw subtle and highly indirect conclusions from actions, heart-rate, skin conductance, pupil dilation and the rate of blood flow in the brain. But no

Nick Chater • Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain

The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger and love.

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are (FT Press Science)

Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald

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