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Bob Sutton: Testosterone Levels, Top Dogs, and Collective Group ConfidenceMy favorite behavioral science website, BPS Research Digest, posted a summary of an amazingly weird and rather troubling psychological experiment. The upshot is that people --- both men and women --- vary in testosterone levels and (no surprise), when people with high testosterone levels aren't ...
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineWhen surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineGhost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix When surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, ...
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Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brainsBigger Not Necessarily Better, When It Comes to Brains ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2009) — Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. "Animals with bigger brains are not ...
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Transcendental Meditation helped heart disease patients lower cardiac disease risks by 50 percentTranscendental Meditation helped heart disease patients lower cardiac disease risks by 50 percent Patients with coronary heart disease who practiced the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation® technique had nearly 50 percent lower rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to ...
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