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Which Tells Us More About Love: The Poetry of Shakespeare or the Reward Circuitry of the Brain?
The answer seems obvious to most of us—but some neuroscientists tell us that we’re just not reading them right: the brain is sweeter and more temperate. Richard Friedman, a clinical psychiatrist, wrote a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times that is the latest iteration of this case. The brain’s reward circuitry, he writes,...
Our Gradually Lowering Standards for Human Interaction
Computers have never passed the Turing Test, but plucky start-ups say software is ready to replace therapists anyway.
That’s according to a recent article in The Atlantic highlighting “The Digital Future of Mental Health” - which doesn’t sound like an overhyped tech-trends piece by a documentarian pushing a movie at...
Politics Isn't Biology—How Neurospsychology Fails to Understand Choice
The motto of western science may be: to freedom and back again.
In his magisterial examination of Western culture, historian Jacques Barzun suggests that what makes the West “the West” is that for 500 years (from approximately the Renaissance to the present) a group of related cultures came together on a joint project that led to the...
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