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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, by Andy Clark, Pantheon Books, 304 pages, $30 For René Descartes, minds were essentially…

In The Experience Machine, philosopher and scientist Andy Clark offers an updated theory of mind.

If you could predetermine your experiences while floating in a tank with your brain plugged into electrodes, would you?

From the rise of AI and hacking to climate change

Our expectations shape our experience. We know this at some level, and use it to teach our children to predict a good outcome on the first day of school.

A Dominican and a Jesuit were chain smokers. Both were eager to be allowed to smoke while performing their devotions, but needed to gain permission from a higher authority. ‘I tried asking the Prior, but he was dead against it,’ said the Dominican. ‘What did you ask, precisely?’ enquired the Jesuit. ‘Well, I asked him

Randolph Mank - A seemingly endless cycle of bad choices will continue to yield international relations catastrophes with consequences for global peace

Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

The hot books of summer 2023 as chosen by the editors of Publishers Weekly. Picks for fiction, mystery, memoir, romance, childrens books, YA, graphic novels, picture books, middle grade

The nature of museum exhibitions mean they are full of history, but technology can bring the lessons of the past to life – in some cases, almost literally.