“… the musicians' brains responded differently to pain. Their training seems to have given them a kind of buffer against the usual negative effects, both in how much pain they felt and in how their brain's motor areas reacted.”

#scicomm
#music
#pain

www.sciencealert.com/musicians-do...
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Is perception a fantasy? | https://iai.tv/video/perception-as-a-fantasy-donald-hoffman

Join Donald Hoffman to discuss his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of reality.

#philsci #philsky

Mindscape 329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge. #MindscapePodcast

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www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

"basic cognitive processes underlying explanatory reasoning give rise to a systematic inherence bias among practicing scientists—a tendency to explain phenomena in terms of their inherent properties rather than external factors"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Last week, #complexitycat published the most comprehensive timeline ever written on Assembly Theory! It's perfect if you're interested in the subject and don't want to read the thousands of criticisms and counter-criticisms that have been published over the last five years.✍️😼💭

Amazing what life can do

Hmm… strange, alien yet beautiful life form