Scientific American Mind - USA (2022-05 & 2022-06)
MAY /JUNE 2022 | MIND.SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM Calm in Uncertain Times NeNew ways to cope with w ways to cope with the unpredictab ...
I wish I could write that a global pandemic was our only problem at the moment. While the U.S. approaches the sad milestone of o ...
May–June 2022 WHAT’S Volume 33 • Number 3 INSIDE Muotri Lab/University of California, San Diego FEATURES The Personality Trait ...
baphotte/Getty Images Artificial Neuron Snaps a Venus Flytrap Shut Researchers say that such biointegrated systems could be the ...
soft, semiorganic artificial neurons. “The overarching goal of our research is to try to develop devices that can mimic the func ...
Aha! Moments Pop Up from Below the Level of Conscious Awareness People in a study handily solved puzzles while juggling an unrel ...
becoming “aware of the solution suddenly and clearly,” like a lightbulb illuminating a dark room—or calculat- ed it step by step ...
Humans Find AI- Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing Viewers struggle to distinguish images of sophisticated mac ...
technology: its potential weaponiza- tion in disinformation campaigns for political or other gain, the creation of false porn fo ...
community is how to start proactively to improve these detection tools,” says Sam Gregory, director of programs strategy and inn ...
called polymers, which are soft and, in some ways, behave similarly to living tissues. In order to let their material carry an e ...
N EWS steps could be replacing them with organic counterparts,” says Robert Nawrocki, an assistant professor at Purdue Universit ...
High levels of it have put people at risk of emotional problems By Francine Russo The Personality Trait “Intolerance of Uncerta ...
A nxiety disorders are the most common type of mental disorders in the U.S. But a simple diagnosis of generalized anxiety dis or ...
events upset me greatly” and “It frustrates me not having all the information I need.” The scale accurately assessed subjects’ r ...
COVID: UNCERTAINTY IN REAL TIME When the pandemic hit, none of us knew from day to day what would happen. No one knew how infect ...
Thomas Fuchs Can Lab-Grown Brains Become Conscious? A handful of experiments are raising questions about whether clumps of cells ...
In Alysson Muotri’s laboratory, hundreds of miniature human brains, the size of sesame seeds, float in petri dishes, sparking wi ...
SENTIENT STATES Creating a conscious system might be a whole lot easier than defining it. Researchers and clinicians define con- ...
about a brain that has been filled with all this, it is hard to imagine that brain would be empty,” says Jeantine Lunshof, a phi ...
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