The world's unsolved problems
993 open questions across 14 fields, gathered from Wikipedia. Pick one and start thinking.
15 results in Neuroscience · clear · surprise me
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Consciousness
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Problem of representation
How exactly does the mind function (or how does the brain interpret and represent information about the world)?
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Perception
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Learning and memory
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Neuroplasticity
How plastic is the mature brain?
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Cognition and decisions
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Language
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Language acquisition
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Linguistic relativity
What are the relations between grammatical patterns and cognitive habits of speakers of different languages? Does language use train or habituate speakers to certain cognitive habits that differ between speakers of different languages? Are effects of...
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Free will, particularly the neuroscience of free will.
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Sleep
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Computational theory of mind
What are the limits of understanding thinking as a form of computing?
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Computational neuroscience
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How do general anesthetics work?
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The emergence and evolution of intelligence
What are the laws and mechanisms - of new idea emergence (insight, creativity synthesis, intuition, decision-making, eureka); development (evolution) of an individual mind in the ontogenesis, etc.?
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