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A recently published Florida State University study is pointing at the evolutionary psychology of attractive faces.
The paper, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Attentional Adhesion to Mates and Rivals,” by Jon Maner, an assistant professor of psychology at FSU, is one of the first to show how strongly, quickly and automatically we are attuned to [...]

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Gravity, Relativity and Quantum experiences: searching for a consensus.
“Quantum Mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One…I am at all events convinced that He does [...]

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Non-computability – Gödel, Turing machines and brain
 
This article is a subsection of the main article
How physics changes the way we look at mind
The current (and almost universally) accepted view on consciousness is that it is an emergent phenomenon arising from the complex interconnections and communication among neurons. Artificial Intelligence researchers latch their idea of a [...]

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