Articles for tag: Neuroscience, PhilosophyOfMind, psychology, TheBrain

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The Brain Explains How – Not Why – We Exist

Suhail Ahmed

  The odd thing about modern neuroscience is that the more precisely it maps the brain, the less it seems able to answer the question people actually care about: why are we here at all. Brain scans can now trace how a decision forms, how a memory resurfaces, even how a burst of awe lights ...