Michael Graziano
Michael Graziano is a neuroscientist, novelist and composer. He is Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton University in New Jersey. His latest book is Consciousness and the Social Brain (2013).
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Mood and emotion
The hunger mood
Hunger isn’t in your stomach or your blood-sugar levels. It’s in your mind – and that’s where we need to shape up
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Cognition and intelligence
Build-a-brain
We could build an artificial brain that believes itself to be conscious. Does that mean we have solved the hard problem?
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Evolution
The first smile
Why do laughter, smiles and tears look so similar? Perhaps because they all evolved from a single root
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Education
An inconvenient child
My six-year-old son was suspended as a danger to others. His crime? A disability you could find in any classroom
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Endless fun
The question is not whether we can upload our brains onto a computer, but what will become of us when we do
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Consciousness and altered states
How the light gets out
Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?
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