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Contributors to the April 2023 issue of TD magazine offer their book recommendations.

  Are you lost in the world? Are you getting enough NATURE in your life? https://youtu.be/Bf5TgVRGND4 How do you spend your days? Do you get outside to walk, hike, garden, explore, camp, read, or even just sit and see the sun set or the moon rise on a regular basis? Do you hear the birds? Do…

In this paper we consider the importance of trust, in the context of economic institutions, and specifically with respect to questions about market mechanisms and the role of social interactions. We review recent advances in institutional economics closely tied to developments in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, involving extended and enactive cognition. We argue that the analysis of different conceptions of institutional mind extension, in Denzau and North’s shared mental models, Cla...

Groundbreakers at the conference were asked what’s coming next for the brain, climate, medicine, labor, security and business.

Cognitive niche construction is the process whereby organisms create and maintain cause–effect models of their niche as guides for fitness influencing behavior. Extended mind theory claims that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world. Active inference and predictive processing in cognitive science assume that organisms embody predictive (i.e., generative) models of the world optimized by standard cognitive functions (e.g., perception, action, lear...

Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and famed psychiatrist Carl Jung have taken different, but complementary, approaches to synchronicity — ...

In the increasingly lifelike worlds of VR, high numbers of users are experiencing hate speech and sexual harassment. How should these lawless spaces be governed?

Adaptability is now an essential requirement for offices according to research from furniture brand Vitra, which was revealed during a digital session.

The Vitra Sessions are a series of short digital events that bring together expert keynotes from people working across different disciplines

Today, smartphones play such a key role in people’s lives that not even the human brain contains the quality or quantity of information held on these devices, which has led philosophers to suggest that they may deserve the same privacy protections as our brains and bodies.