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1. “The majority of aphantasics report having been unaware of their inability to visualize for decades of their lives” — What explains this? Christian O. Scholz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) suggests an answer
2. “Can a social group direct its attention?” — one of many questions arising when the study of attention meets the study of the social, according to Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced)
3. Can political gridlock be overcome with a “Habermas Machine”? — using an LLM “to enhance collective deliberation by finding common ground among discussants with diverse views”
4. “To understand zero, our mind must create something out of nothing” — the neuropsychology of zero
5. Seasonally appropriate thought experiment: should you become a vampire? — the latest in The New Statesmen’s “Thought Experiment” series looks at transformative experiences
6. Philosophy can help us better understand the extent to which animals have feelings about, and a concept of, death — philosopher Susana Monsó (UNED) on anthropocentrism in comparative thanatology
7. Reviews of children’s books, with an emphasis on their philosophical content — from the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State U.

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