Posts by marco-masi

One of the most typical unaware premises with which also professional neurologists and philosophers of mind work is what I call the ‘mind-brain-function fallacy’, and from which they jump to the conclusion of what is called the ‘mind-brain identity.’ It can be summarized as follows: since an impairment to our brain structure leads to cognitive…

Last month, Google announced that its DeepMind AI program AlphaFold can ‘predict’ all the 200 million protein structures from 1 million species. This is, indeed, an impressive achievement. In a sense, I consider it an example of what AI really could be useful for: Not so much to create humanoids or sci-fi conscious computers, but…

In this paper we are informed why people don’t trust science, and what can be done about it. I’m not going to make the summary of it here, and that you can read in this article. While one can’t disagree with the anti-science factors of distrust that the authors of the article point out, here…

A new study shows that there is no evidence for depression being caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain. “For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain—namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research review shows…

Those who know me, know that almost 20 years ago I started running a blog (in Italian) about the Russian-Chechen conflict. I narrated for seven years the horror of the conflict in Chechnya, from July 2003 to August 2010. Not only to draw attention to the conflict but because I considered it the litmus test…