Human & Psychology
Why Do We Dream?
Dreams remain one of the most fascinating mysteries of the human mind. Discover what science knows about why we dream and what happens in our brain while we sleep.
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How the brain builds thought, memory, emotion and experience.
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Technology & AICould Artificial Intelligence Become Conscious?
Language models can describe feelings convincingly. Whether anything is felt is a much harder question — and philosophers disagree on how to even test it.
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Human & PsychologyHow Memory Really Works
Memories are not recordings. They are rebuilt every time we recall them — which makes them powerful, flexible and sometimes wrong.
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Nature & AnimalsWhy Octopuses Are So Intelligent
Three hearts, blue blood and a nervous system spread through eight arms. The octopus evolved a mind very different from ours.
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