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 COGITO: cognitive and neurosciences

Cogito deals with various aspects of religion in conversation with the cognitive neurosciences, including artificial intelligence.  The word cogito is Latin for “I think.”

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A Review of The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious    
Behavioral Sciences in Support of Religion, Part 1    
Bottom of the Class    
Brain Science & The Biology of Belief    
Brain, Mind, Soul, and Spirit—Unified in Personality    
Buddhist Contributions to a Life-Enhancing Future    
Comments on the International Science and Consciousness    
Conscious Evolution and the Emergence of Integral Culture    
Cybernetics Is An Antihumanism: Advanced Technologies and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition    
Emergence and Supervenience: A Reply to Phil Clayton    
ESSSAT Conference: Barcelona, 1-6 April, 2004    
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Field Analysis of Religion, Spirituality and Human Flourishing    
God, Infinity, the Right Hemisphere of the Cerebral Cortex    
How the Unconscious Shapes Science    
Indic Visions in an Age of Science, III: Theories of Mind and Consciousness    
It’s Good to be Good: How Benevolent Emotions and Actions Contribute to Health    
Libet's Loophole: The Fight For Free Will    
Neural Development: Affective and Immune System Influences    
Neuropsychology and Mythology of Motivation for Group Aggression, by Jordan B. Peterson    
Neuroscientific Study of Religious and Spiritual Phenomena: A Field Analysis    
Neurotheology    
Resources and Problems in Whitehead's Metaphysics    
Review of Antonio Damasio's "Descartes Error"    
Review of John Horgan's "The Undiscovered Mind"    
Spiritual Transformation Q&A: Mario Beauregard    
The Epistemology of Testimony - Part 1/4    
The Epistemology of Testimony - Part 2/4    
The Mind and Its Now    
The Neurosciences of Religion: Meditation, Entheogens, Mysticism    
The Possibility of Practical Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary Model for Discernment    
The Religious Mind and the Evolution of Religious Forms    
The Science of Compassion--A Talk with Evan Thompson    
The Spiritual Brain without God: Possible? A Review of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary    
The Varieties of Human Experience    
Trading Faith for Spirituality: The Mystifications of Sam Harris, by Meera Nanda    
Visionary Spiritual Experiences and Cognitive Aspects of Spiritual Transformation    

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