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Behind all the flash, AI is quietly removing the intellectual itch, the false starts, the second guessing, all those difficult mental activities that accompany brain work.

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Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

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Published in the Journal of Experimental Physiology, this work highlights a new particularity of the enteric nervous system. Illustrative image Pixabay The only organ in our body with an intrinsic ...