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Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

Summary: Researchers argue that aphantasia, the complete inability to voluntarily form mental images, fundamentally shatters ...

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...

When you interact with a large language model (LLM) – one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude – it can ...

One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that ...

Psychology, psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and other speculative paradigms such as shamanism, panpsychism, and collective ...

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness ...

Computers have made it easier than ever before to design the perfect material for a given problem: Scientists can create a ...

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts ...

Anthropic's latest study suggests AI models may use a hidden "mental workspace" to organise information and reason before ...

In a paper published recently in the Journal of Asian and African Studies, I read Dhaka University’s undergraduate political ...