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Mind & Human Nature

What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t

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Embodiment •
Consciousness •
Artificial Intelligence •
Neuroscience •
Psychology •
Materialism •
Human Sexuality •
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Review | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Algis Valiunas

The Science of Self-Help

Goofy advice, dubious wisdom, and neuro-gurus

Algis Valiunas

Review | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Caitrin Keiper

Disenchanting Determinism

Is human life less meaningful the more its mechanisms are known?

Caitrin Keiper

Essay | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Stephen L. Talbott

Getting Over the Code Delusion

Epigenetics and the demise of DNA as destiny

From: Recovering the Organism

Stephen L. Talbott

Fiction | Spring 2010

Spring 2010

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

The New Adam and Eve

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Online Exclusive | April 21, 2010

April 21, 2010

  • Peter Augustine Lawler

Being Personal

Why are there no dolphin scientists?

Peter Augustine Lawler

Adam and Eve in a mansion

Essay | Spring 2010

Spring 2010

  • Charles T. Rubin

Artful by Nature

Reading “The New Adam and Eve”

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Charles T. Rubin

  • Ivan Kenneally

Neuroscience and the Poetry of the Soul

Ivan Kenneally

State of the Art | Summer 2009

Summer 2009

  • S. Elizabeth Forsythe

China’s Organ Market

A Tale of Prisoners, Tourists, and Lies

S. Elizabeth Forsythe

Essay | Spring 2009

Spring 2009

  • Alan Rubenstein

What and When Is Death?

Why we must know human living to define human dying

Alan Rubenstein

Essay | Winter 2009

Winter 2009

  • Ari Schulman

Why Minds Are Not Like Computers

The fundamental confusion about artificial intelligence

Ari Schulman

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