Mind Blender

Artificial Intelligence

How to Find the Truth in Our "Fake News" World

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on August 10, 2018

Is there any hope for objectivity in the era of "fake news"? Probably.

Is there any hope for objectivity in the era of "fake news"? Probably.

Neuroscience

A Case for Neural Augmentation

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on October 20, 2017

In an era when information is expanding exponentially, we may have to modify our brains to keep up.

In an era when information is expanding exponentially, we may have to modify our brains to keep up.

Why is the world becoming so polarized?

Why are we not seeing alien life when there are billions of habitable planets?

Adoption

The Changing Self

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on May 8, 2014

Do my material possessions change me? Well, yes.

Do my material possessions change me? Well, yes.

Genetics

The Evolution of Faith

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on April 3, 2014

I have told a wide variety of men and women that they have a diagnosis that is going to take their life. What they do after that, however, varies quite a bit.

I have told a wide variety of men and women that they have a diagnosis that is going to take their life. What they do after that, however, varies quite a bit.

Neuroscience

The Neuroscience of War

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on March 27, 2014

Why we avoid personal conflict, but go to war.

Why we avoid personal conflict, but go to war.

Hormones

The Backward Brain

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on March 19, 2014

How the brain keeps us who we are and how experience changes it.

How the brain keeps us who we are and how experience changes it.

Memory

Why Forgetting the Past Can Be a Good Thing

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on March 12, 2014

Sometimes forgetting is a good thing.

Sometimes forgetting is a good thing.

Friends

Why Is the World Changing So Fast?

Eric Leuthardt M.D. on March 5, 2014

The speed of change. The future is now.

The speed of change. The future is now.