ToK Essays Nov 2024

Researchers have put together a 30-second movie clip based on a group of mice's brain activity data that was recorded while they watched the footage

Fuzzy Sets, Family Resemblances, and Conceptual Truths

We still have so much to learn about the human brain, yet scientists are already able to tap into certain parts of it.

The space rock has about a 1 in 560 chance of hitting this planet, the agency says.

Awakening experiences are spiritual states often believed to unlock life’s mysteries – but sacred knowledge comes at a cost

A political and policy issues blog.

The transition to a world where what’s real is indistinguishable from what’s not could impact levels of social trust.

Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.

Salman Rushdie has narrowly escaped a murderous attempt on his life. But the Rushdie affair is about more than the simple issue of free speech.

The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct language and meaning from stories that people hear, see or even imagine.

An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female.

It’s boom times for doom times. But the apocalyptic mindset that has gripped so many of us not only understates how far we’ve come, but how much further we can still go.

The disappearance of Nicola Bulley saw armchair detectives flood the internet with uninformed and harmful speculation

The science-fiction writer imagined artificial intelligence—and what it might want—long before this uncanny reality ever became our own.

From the archives in 2006, Mark Newbrook ponders the complexities of extraterrestrial languages

This courageous account puts the indigenous Americans who came to Europe, most as slaves, at the centre of the story

Since 1993, the British False Memory Society has been supporting parents accused of abuse via memories 'recovered' during psychotherapy

Thinking about the various challenges involved when experts transfer knowledge between contexts creates various challenges for the experts who and whether or not they underestimated these challenges. Does the analogy of growing tomatoes help understand the question?