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Innovation-facilitating networks create inequality
Theories of innovation often balance contrasting views that either smart people create smart things or smartly constructed institutions create...
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Project: Creative Intelligence
Insightful artificial intelligence
In March 2016, DeepMind's computer programme AlphaGo surprised the world by defeating the world‐champion Go player, Lee Sedol. AlphaGo exhibit...
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Integrated information structure collapses with anesthetic loss of conscious arousal in Drosophila melanogaster
The physical basis of consciousness remains one of the most elusive concepts in current science. One influential conjecture is that consciousn...
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Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms
This paper presents Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0. IIT aims to account for the properties of experience in physical (operational) te...
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Interactive bioacoustic playback as a tool for detecting and exploring nonhuman intelligence: “conversing” with an Alaskan humpback whale
Here we report on a rare and opportunistic acoustic turn-taking with an adult female humpback whale, known as Twain, in Southeast Alaska. Post...
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Project: Argumentation in Science and Religious Education: An Interdisciplinary Study in British Schools
Interdisciplinary perspective-taking within argumentation: students’ strategies across science and religious education
Abstract The importance of developing students’ argumentation skills is well established across the curriculum: students should grasp how clai...
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International scientific collaborative activities and barriers to them in eight societies
Scientific research increasingly requires international collaboration among scientists. Less is known, however, about the barriers that impede...
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Interpersonal and Individual Effects of an App-Based Christian and Islamic Heart Meditation Intervention in Healthy Adults: Protocol of a Stratified Randomised Controlled Trial
This trial aims to test the effects of an app-based Christian and Islamic meditation, compared to secular mindfulness and a waitlist, using a randomised controlled trial. If the results yield positive outcomes, this study will support the efficacy of these contemplations, offering practitioners a way to enhance their well-being within their religious framework. |
Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency
We investigated if interpersonal synchrony can lead to a sense of agency over another’s movement (extended self-agency). In Experiment 1, we f...
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Introduction: Evolution and historical explanation
• Special issue examines historical dimensions of evolutionary biology. • Cross-disciplinary perspectives from historians, philosophers, biolo...
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Project: A Science of Global Risk
Introduction: Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges
Undoubtedly, many of the most pressing problems of our age relate to changes in human population. Population growth and demographic transition...
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Investigating Markers of Rapport in Autistic and Nonautistic Interactions
Autism is considered to entail a social impairment whereby autistic people experience difficulty interpreting others' mental states. However, ...
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Investigation of mirror-self recognition in ravens (Corvus corax).
Large-brained birds, such as corvids and parrots, tend to fail tests for self-recognition (mirror self-recognition [MSR]), but the limited pos...
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Is the Market Perceived to be Civilizing or Destructive? Scientists’ Universalism Values and Their Attitudes Towards Patents
Is the market civilizing or destructive? The increased salience of science commercialization is forcing scientists to address this question...
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Is the racial composition of your surroundings associated with your levels of social dominance orientation?
We investigate the extent to which minority group members are surrounded by outgroup members in their immediate environment as a predictor of ...
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Is there a window of opportunity for religiosity? Children and adolescents preferentially recall religious-type cultural representations, but older adults do not
Is there a sensitive period in childhood and adolescence for acquiring religiosity? Does a cultural group’s familiarity with religious-type re...
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Project: Understanding Spiritual Intelligence: Psychological, Theological and Computational Approaches
Is There ‘Spiritual Intelligence’? An Evaluation of Strong and Weak Proposals
The debate about whether, and in what sense, there is ‘spiritual intelligence’ remains unresolved. We suggest it will be helpful to make a dis...
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It just feels right: an account of expert intuition
Abstract One of the hallmarks of virtue is reliably acting well. Such reliable success presupposes that an agent (1) is able to recognize the ...
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Janus-faced nature of colorblindness: Social dominance orientation moderates the relationship between colorblindness and outgroup attitudes
Colorblindness is a popular diversity ideology promoted as a means to intergroup harmony in ethnically diverse nations. While some research su...
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Joyful by nature: approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non‐human animals
The nature and evolution of positive emotion is a major question remaining unanswered in science and philosophy. The study of feelings and emo...
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