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Technology

Westworld: a complex tale of robot awakening has us riveted

As TV hit Westworld's robots come to some awkward conclusions about their true nature in time for the season finale, we're still hooked by the show's sheer smartness

Culture

pyschedelics

Life

Changing our minds about psychedelics takes a great guide

Culture

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Health

Minimally conscious people woken with brain zap by their family

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Technology

We need to be mindful as we develop thought-reading tech

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Humans

The Strange Order of Things: How we feel our way to being human

Culture

A chicken under a person's arm

Life

No, the UK didn't vote that animals can't feel pain or emotion

Analysis

A group of people, two in space suits, on a parabolic flight

Space

Space changes how your brain thinks and it starts right away

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Health

Electric zap ‘wakes’ man after 15 years in a vegetative state

News

Angela Sirigu

Health

Meet the team who 'woke' a man from 15 years in vegetative state

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Health

Why court ruling on ending life support is the right decision

It is much kinder for all involved if someone kept alive in a vegetative state is allowed to die with only their doctor’s and family’s approval, not a judge’s say-so

Analysis

Humans

Five ways technology can read your mind – and what it’s good for

Features

Humans

The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness

Features

Technology

Who do we think we are?

Culture

Life

Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world

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