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Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

4 March 2020

We have finally found time cells in the human brain – they help explain how we recall when events happened, and they could be a target for Alzheimer’s therapies
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What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

29 January 2020

What our senses allow us to experience may not reflect what actually exists. It may be a creation of our own consciousness, or a computer simulation designed by superintelligent beings

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