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Is It Time to Give Up on Consciousness as 'the Ghost in the Machine'?
Neuroscience News - 5 Jun 2021 23:03
Giving up the theory that consciousness is like a "ghost in the machine" to focus on the neurobiology of brain mechanisms behind conscious awareness is an essential step to better understand the human mind, researchers a...
Is the COVID-19 vaccine causing rare myocarditis cases?
Live Science - 5 Jun 2021 19:12
Researchers in Israel say they've found a possible link between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and cases of heart inflammation called myocarditis in young men.
This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 5)
Singularity Hub - 5 Jun 2021 18:00
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE China’s Gigantic Multi-Modal AI Is No One-Trick Pony A. Tarantola | Engadget “When Open AI’s GPT-3 model made its debut in May of 2020, its performance was widely considered to be the litera...
Computer simulations of the brain can predict language recovery in stroke survivors
Science Daily - 5 Jun 2021 05:36
Speech rehabilitation experts can predict how well a patient will recover from aphasia, a disorder caused by damage to the part of the brain responsible for producing language.
'Hangry' male fruit flies attack each other if they go without food
New Scientist - 5 Jun 2021 04:01
When male fruit flies go without food for 24 hours, they get hangry and become aggressive towards other males, lunging at each other and fencing with their legs