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Mind & Human Nature

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

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Embodiment •
Consciousness •
Artificial Intelligence •
Neuroscience •
Psychology •
Materialism •
Human Sexuality •
All

Symposium | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

They’re Here…

The AI moment has arrived.
Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
B.S. Jobs and the Coming Crisis of Meaning
AI Can’t Beat Stupid
The Dead Internet to Come
Why I Fired My AI Agent
How the State Built This AI Moment
The Speech of the Dead
Sam Altman Doesn’t Want To Be Your AI King

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Ari Schulman

Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal

This time, believe the hype.

From: They’re Here…

Ari Schulman

Correspondence | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Steven C. Hayes

Is Morality Therapeutic?

A psychologist asks whether patients need to hear hard truths or make hard choices.

Steven C. Hayes

Essay | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • Alan Jacobs

Something Happened By Us: A Demonology

A theory of why we’re all going nuts online

From: Saving the Real

Alan Jacobs

Essay | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • James Mumford

Therapy Beyond Good and Evil

A nonjudgmental psychology is failing patients who need to hear hard truths.

From: Saving the Real

James Mumford

Review | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • Paul Dicken

Surveillance Humanism

The unholy union of AI and HR is coming.

Paul Dicken

Review | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • David Bentley Hart

Reality Minus

On the depressing fantasy of minds in simulated worlds

From: Saving the Real

David Bentley Hart

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Joseph E. Davis

All Pathology, All the Time

What ails a culture that sees illness everywhere?

Joseph E. Davis

Review | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • William Lombardo

Losing Ourselves

Why the prospect of loving machines is so sad

William Lombardo

Review | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • William Hasselberger

Can Machines Have Common Sense?

“Deep learning” hype misses a basic feature of human intelligence.

From: Available in Audio

William Hasselberger

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