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It’s only two pages, and it’s available to everyone here, but this little Letter in JAMA Neurology from June last year is a striking read The…
An interesting piece from Canadian philosopher Adam Morton. It is sensitively written and thought provoking. Like much philosophy it is not focussed on what to do…
Nice essay from Ben Medlock on Aeon: The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines “It’s tempting to think of the mind as…
Thought provoking piece from Alva Noë from npr: Moving Toward Understanding Consciousness If you stop and think about it, the idea that you could understand a…
Nice piece in The Atlantic today, The Running Conversation in Your Head. “Language is the hallmark of humanity—it allows us to form deep relationships and complex…
I wrote the first version of this over 3 years ago and I still get contacted by health professionals who want to discuss their similar…
Peter Hacker, philosopher and Emeritus research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford University, on the place and importance of philosophy: “Philosophy patrols the borders between…
The Imposter Syndrome The School of Life has a brilliant little video on The Imposter Syndrome – that ‘crippling thought that people like us couldn’t possibly triumph given…
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.” “It…