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Enduring memory

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A theory of my own mind

Philosophy of mind

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Art from a mind at sea

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The addiction trap

Childhood and adolescence

Attached

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Out of mind

Personality

The warped self

Computing and artificial intelligence

Technology and the self

History of science

Phrenology: the weirdest pseudoscience of them all?

Human evolution

Brains in a dish

Genetics

Sleep and dreams

Nightmares becalmed

Consciousness and altered states

Brain wifi

Am I my connectome?

The future

Myth and the mind

Rituals and celebrations

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To the core

Biography and memoir

The problem with prediction

History of technology

Gender and identity

What makes a woman’s body

In exile from the dreamscape

How close is too close?

Animals and humans

Family life

The biology of dads

Human reproduction

The need to touch

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The value of uncertainty

Politics is visceral

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Sexual dinosaurs

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Essays and videos offering insights into the self, relationships, cognition and neuroscience

Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental health, identity and more.
