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Overcoming evolution | Subrina Smith, Keith Frankish, Simon Baron-Cohen

Is evolutionary psychology merely a way of excusing outdated behaviours? Is it instead culture which really defines how we behave?As with the animal kingdom, we see human behaviour as the product of elemental drives to survive and reproduce. Evolutionary psychology has taken this ...  Show more

Slavoj Žižek on quantum history and the end of the past

Does the past even exist anymore?Quantum mechanics has long unsettled our understanding of matter and measurement. But what if its implications reach further — into history, politics, and the very structure of reality itself? If the present can retroactively reshape the past it e ...  Show more

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