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The Knot

A postmodern caper by Maria Reva

Survival Mode

A psychological novel by David Szalay

Streams of Consciousness

Two authors go with the flow

Ian Gold

Ian Gold is a professor of philosophy and psychiatry at McGill University.

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Ian Gold

Losing Our Heads

Is neuroscience the best way to understand ourselves? December 2016
Marvin Minsky, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, famously said that minds are simply what brains do. Minsky’s credo has become a truism; it not only expresses our commitment to a scientific understanding of the mind but also captures the familiar idea that a deep theory can only come from a science of the…