Tag: consciousness
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If every part of something is replaced, is it still the same thing? The Ship of Theseus has puzzled philosophers for centuries, but the question becomes considerably stranger when we stop talking about ships and start talking about ourselves. What,…
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What if wanting doesn’t require a mind? A bacterium cannot think about survival, yet its behaviour is organized around staying alive. If that’s enough to call it a kind of wanting, then where do we draw the line between wanting,…
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Before we can fully understand the process of sitting in a chair, we should consider a few things that might have a potentially devastating effect on the outcome.
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Can the human soul be weighed? For more than a century, experiments have claimed to measure what leaves us at the moment of death. But follow the evidence far enough, and the story becomes stranger than the question itself.
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For years, a photograph supposedly showing the human soul leaving the body has circulated online. Attributed to Russian scientist Konstantin Korotkov, the image has been linked to Kirlian photography—but the famous “soul photograph” doesn’t actually exist. So where did the…
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One of the things we take for granted in this age of technology and science, is the medical knowledge that has been hard-won to the toll of billions of deaths over the centuries. The world’s respective medical establishments are advancing…
