The ancient Cynics taught that masturbation is about more than pleasure: it suggests how to live simply and autonomously

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David Deutsch: How close are we to creating an artificial intelligence

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Why the pull of addictive cravings is so hard to resist

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Cracking the Cretan code

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No, Mozart isn’t a brain hack for babies – here’s how music really affects intelligence

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The abuses of Popper. A powerful cadre of scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for.

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GC: This article explains well that even if there are only two sexes, and not many sexes, or a continuum of sexes, "trans men are men, and trans women are women", do you have any arguments against the things said in this article? What are your arguments?

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The biology of dads - The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child

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Privacy is power

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Prelude to the space age – the 1960 film that inspired ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

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Aeon is publishing some of the most profound and provocative thinking on the web.

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Philosopher of science Cordelia Fine on charges of ‘feminist bias’.

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Gender is not a spectrum

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The new mind control - The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

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Depressive realism

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, then it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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The Salacious Middle Ages

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Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true – Philip Goff | Aeon Ideas

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Gregory Bateson Changed the Way we Think About Changing Ourselves

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Civilisational collapse has a bright past – but a dark future – Luke Kemp | Aeon Ideas

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"Meritocracy" - an enduring and unhealthy myth.

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How an unplanned picture from Apollo 8 altered humanity’s perspective of Earth

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For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. — Will medicine ever recover from the perverse economics of drugs?

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