Saturday Citations: Reality vs. imagination; rhinos vs. poachers; mathematics vs. the Big Bang Phys.org How the Brain Tells Imagination from Reality,…
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Similar brain regions are involved in imagination and perceiving reality Naeblys/Alamy How do you tell if something is real or…
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Read More »Ray Kurzweil, the AI futurist best known for predicting the rise of the singularity, is taking a major step toward…
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