BRAIN

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Dream Hacking: Decisions, Addictions, and Sleep

Have you ever felt drawn toward choices without knowing why? Our decisions can be measurably influenced by events that evade the conscious part of our brains, and influences we are unaware of in our waking life, during dreamless sleep or even in our dreams can impact our memory and behavior.

Can We Build a Brain?

The world’s brightest computer programmers are trying to build brighter machines by reverse-engineering the brain and by inventing completely new kinds of computers, with exponentially greater speed and processing power.

Physics Is Erasing Your Memory

You might store your precious memories in diary passages or in photos backed up on a hard drive. But thanks to physics, no memory can last forever — not in a diary, not in a hard drive, not even in your brain. If you could live forever, you would eventually forget everything.

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