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How does the brain love and hate?
Consciousness is how we are able to feel, dream and imagine. And yet — scientists haven't figured out how consciousness definitively works.
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We feel it in our bones': Can a machine ever love you?
Artificial intelligence can write you a passable love poem and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But is the feeling mutual?
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AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain
Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data.
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The brain speaks a secret language scientists are only now beginning to understand
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