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It's my belief that only experiencing and understanding truly disembodied cognition, only seeing the coldness and deadness and disconnectedness of something that truly does deal in pure abstraction, divorced from sensory reality, only this can snap us out of it. Only this can bring us, quite literally, back to our senses. 
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Human brains have shrunk over the past 30,000 years, puzzling scientists who argue it is not a sign we are growing dumber but that evolution is making the key motor leaner and more efficient.
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How the human brain and human cognitive abilities evolved in less than six million years has long puzzled scientists.
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Descartes' dualism fell recently to the computational theory of the mind which viewed the brain as a rational calculating machine. It owed much of its impact to our understanding of computers and how our mind seemed to order the world by a similar process. But more and more we realize that personal experiences, shared across communities, also influence how we view and describe the world. For example, participants in scientific studies often lean forward when they think of the future, thus we associate the future with something 'forward'.
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Areas of inquiry once reserved for historians and social scientists are now studied by neuroscientists, and among the most fascinating is cultural conflict.
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In a study published recently in the journal Nature, a team of scientists from the University of Zürich suggest that the evolution of the large human brain was the outcome of a major energy-saving development, most likely bipedalism.
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Primerlife uses an artificial intelligence engine tested by the Spanish government, on both their emergency preparedness division and healthcare system,” says Primerlife co-founder Brinkley Warren. But this is the first time the technology has been employed in a “consumer-facing way.”
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