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The 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am.” And what Descartes meant by that ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

Since René Descartes' first treatise on emotions in 1649, a great deal of research has been carried out into the impact of ...

In ancient Eastern philosophy, thought holds transformative power. Master Huineng, a revered Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, observed, 'If one thought is deluded, it leads to reincarnation; if one thought ...

France will host the AI Action Summit next week, where concerns about AI developing consciousness and potential suffering by ...