Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God
20 April 2016
The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience
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Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?
6 April 2016
Andy Clark’s masterly book overturns traditional views about our brains, arguing they make internal models of reality which they then compare with incoming data
The Myth of the Moral Brain: Could a drug make us nicer people?
30 March 2016
When it comes to behaving ethically, trusting our neurons over our psychology or our society may be a big mistake, argues a book by Harris Wiseman
Animal Electricity: How the forces inside cells actually behave
9 March 2016
When it comes to understanding how electricity works at cell level in living creatures, we need more popular science reads like Robert Campenot's one
The Persuaders: How we let the PR industry control our minds
2 March 2016
Reason and argument are dead, replaced by conspiracy theories and optional realities – and the PR industry is to blame, argues James Garvey in his latest book
NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind
10 February 2016
We may have a complex, scientific take on the unconscious mind, but as Eliexer Sternberg's new book shows, explanations demand a nuance befitting the subject
Visible thoughts at the fringes of consciousness
8 February 2016
For centuries, people have tried to picture thought, as a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London shows. Now that we can, are we any better off?
Gaming theatre could spark a playful interest in science
27 January 2016
What happens if you mix up theatre, games and real-life settings? A novel cocktail of an art form that both gets to the audience and feeds back into science
Why we need to go on talking about trauma
2 January 2016
On the ninth of the 12 days of CultureLab, Shaoni Bhattacharya finds we are steadily learning to look trauma in the eye
Are we being dazzled by the mindless brilliance of machines?
30 December 2015
On the sixth of the 12 days of CultureLab, Anil Ananthaswamy says machine intelligence will make all the difference to our future
