Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory […]
Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions
we can’t tell ourselves whom to fall in love with – means that our wrestling with the passions is what brings the self into being. Habits consolidate what control we […]
The rise of microchipping: are we ready for technology to get under the skin?
As implants grow more common, experts fear surveillance and exploitation of workers. Advocates say the concerns are irrational “It was like my body was online,” he said. “It was my […]
Forget the Anthropocene: we’ve entered the synthetic age
An Anthropocene epoch requires one kind of psychological adjustment. A synthetic age demands something considerably more. One fact about our time is becoming increasingly well-known. No matter how far you […]
Digital Identity Is Broken. Here’s a Way to Fix It
The bedrock of trust is a human community with frequent positive interactions – The Entangled Social Self. Most people today suffer from a strange sort of psychosis: we are uncertain […]