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In an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we're truly capable of.

There are rare moments in time when we make choices that irreversibly change the world, and our lives,…


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Braden shed light on some of the implications of AI. For a while now I’ve been intuiting that AI may be narrowing our possibilities to a human centric view. In contrast, Nature Intelligence can help us reclaim the lost abilities of our ancestors as well as develop unimaginable human potentials. Braden took these ideas much further than I had.

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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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