All games use powerful triggers that cause learning, long term memory, and motivation. This is true of board games, video games (which now generate more revenue than movies), and sports.

Your brain is not a computer. It may perform computations, but it’s nothing like the device that carries out spreadsheet calculations. Here’s a way to be completely sure of that contention: Imagine…

Henry Molaison had become the world’s most famous psychological patient but had no knowledge of that important fact. He’d been told of his fame many times, but to no avail. Mr. Molaison had no way to remember that …

Correspondence to reality is a phrase that philosophers have long used to describe the goal of humanity’s quest for a description of nature. No undertaking yet devised gets closer......

In the real world, Mr. Spock from Star Trek would be paralyzed without the guiding power of emotion. The countless moment-to-moment decisions we take for granted would be......