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“… 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
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#pain

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Musicians Don't Feel Pain Like The Rest of Us, Surprising Study Reveals
It's well known that learning to play an instrument can offer benefits beyond just musical ability.
www.sciencealert.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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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.

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Perception as a fantasy
Join us as world-leading cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman discusses his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of r...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Mindscape 329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge. #MindscapePodcast

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www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
September 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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"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"
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September 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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.✍️😼💭
As a promising avenue for unifying physics and biology, assembly theory (AT) has been subject of controversy, being both praised and refuted at the same time.

What is its current status? Has it really quantified selection and evolution?/1

#complexitycat🐈‍⬛

amahury.github.io/posts/demyst...
Demystifying Assembly Theory
“It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is … If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Amazing what life can do
August 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hmm… strange, alien yet beautiful life form
May 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM