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Alva Noë, the philosopher locked in the Prado Museum: "The mind is not magical, but neither purely natural"

Among Velázquez, El Bosco, and Goya, Noë reflects on how art changes us, interrupts our perceptual routines, and reveals that consciousness is, above all, a form of relationship: "Artists are ...
Nature

Art and science: close cousins or polar opposites?

Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of ...