The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus...

Pitfalls of heritable genome editing undermine theoretical benefits.

“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

Overheden en bedrijven – bang om de boot te missen – zien AI nog vooral als iets handigs en iets wat geld bespaart. Ondertussen transformeert AI de hele samenleving. De politiek moet niet alleen econo...

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

As artificial intelligence begins to mimic consciousness with uncanny skill, we need design norms and laws that prevent it from being mistaken for sentient beings.

How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying account of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processi…

PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for exam...

How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is

In een tijd waarin autoritaire machthebbers liegen zonder schaamte, zien we hoe ‘neutraliteit’ vaak wordt opgevat als het netjes doorgeven van alle claims, ook als ze aantoonbaar onwaar zijn. Bij De C...

Somewhere in rural Albania stands a cage. A gigantic cage, containing not animals, but people.

Abstract. Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience i