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The connections between the neurons in the brain. Illustration: depositphotos.com

When the Subconscious Meets the Conscious: Human Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Prof. Rafi Malach from the Weizmann Institute reveals how fast bursts and slow waves in the human brain are the basis for conscious and creative processes, and offers ways to utilize the brain's capabilities in the technological age

חולטה-השולל בהישולל בהישורים, the true reason for ליירירי הדיור ושיטה הגאוניט ההופקת את מעציעה השולל לעבדים מודריםים

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Chapter nine from the book: "The Free Man - Evolutionary Psychology, Brain Research and Understanding the Mind"
Will robots take over the world? Illustration: shutterstock

Worried about artificial intelligence taking over the world? You are probably making unscientific assumptions

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Cartoon showing US President Donald Trump reading fake news. Illustration: shutterstock

The instinct to agree with ourselves

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Image: pixabay.

What can be learned about the brain when we talk to ourselves

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Illustration: pixabay.

where are we where are we going

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To understand the abilities of consciousness with the help of brain research

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Prof. Ilan Dinstein. Source: Ben-Gurion University.

Do you think your mind is reliable?

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Illustration: US Food and Drug Administration

People with fatty liver have an "older" brain

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Gender differences in the human brain have led to the notion that brains are male or female. Research by Dafna Yoel from Tel Aviv University and her colleagues tells a different story. Illustration: pixabay.

Is there a "female brain"?

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How does the brain set limits to memory search? Illustration: pixabay.

How does the brain set limits to memory search?

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The unique view of human brain activity, made possible by this study, reveals how sleep deprivation affects not only decision-making processes and muscle control, but also early processes of object recognition, perception and memory. As such, the study provides a future basis for road fatigue measurement. Illustration: pixabay.

Fatigue slows down brain cell activity

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Researchers at Tel Aviv University have identified a brain learning mechanism that may in the future save us from tedious processes of memorizing and practicing the learned material. Illustration: pixabay.

A brain mechanism for rapid learning

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The left and right lobes of the brain play different roles in processing humor - and to laugh at jokes people need both. Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2).

What's funny in a pun?

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Building an entire brain in a lab dish is impossible, but scientists do build cellular tissue that closely resembles the developing embryonic brain. Image: pixabay.com.

build a brain in the lab

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Illustration: Ars Electronica / ra2 studio / Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0) license

The right to cognitive freedom

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There is no specific area in the brain that is responsible for conscious perception - there is no homunoculus. Image: Wikimedia.

Where is the soul bird? New Israeli research is looking for the conscious network of the brain

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Prof. Steve Farber at the ChipEx2016 conference. Photo: Kobi Kantor

ChipEx2016: "We can't build a computer that mimics the human brain until we know how the brain works"

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A teenager looks at his brain scan. Illustration: shutterstock

The amazing mind of teenagers / J. N. Gid

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Increased consumption of caffeine and sugar. Illustration: shutterstock

Caffeine consumption slows brain development

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The right side of Einstein's brain. Photo: National Museum of Health and Medicine

Obama will announce today an initiative to map the activity of the human brain

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Numbers. From Wikipedia

If he can, so can she / Sharon Bigley

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Taliarch mapping. The image is from http://mipav.cit.nih.gov

Taliarch's coordinate system - one of the maps for the human mind

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Advertisement for the 11th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (May 1913)

About the day Wikipedia will be streamed directly into the brain

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Brain exercise. Integrating images within Wikimedia

Brainwashing - "brain exercise" - is it useful?

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The opening page of the first publication in which Huntington describes the disease named after him

Oedipus, Theresias and Huntington's disease: the prophecy fulfilled

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The basal ganglia and related brain structures

deep inside the brain

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Homer Simpson's brain lobes

A brain scan determines the human ability to ``wonder about your essence''

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A face expressing fear from the book "The expressions of fear in mother and beast" written by Darwin

The pinnacle of courage

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A scientist from NASA at the aerospace conference: in 2011 there will be computers with a power similar to that of the human brain

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