Robert A Burton
Neurologist and Author
Robert A Burton is a neurologist, author and the former associate director of the department of neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center at Mount Zion. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and Nautilus, among others. His latest book is A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves (2013).
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Demography and migration
Like the chemical process of osmosis, migration is unstoppable
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Neuroscience
The theory of mind myth
Even experts can’t predict violence or suicide. Surely we’re kidding ourselves that we can see inside the minds of others
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Cognition and intelligence
Our world outsmarts us
Social problems are fantastically complex, while human minds are severely under-engineered. Is democracy doomed?
Robert A Burton