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Essay Opinion

A Brief Case for Unconscious Free Will

Free will is something that seems intrinsic to the experience of being a human. Being able to make your own decisions, choose actions and reactions, and plan out future events, is all stuff we do day to day without questioning who or what is truly responsible. It seems simple, we are the ones who act, […]

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Essay Opinion

Waking the Dreamer

The psychological origins of dreams and what they mean for our waking reality.

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Essay Opinion

Can a Computer Be Conscious?

A psychological dive into the brain-computer connection.

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Essay Opinion

Live Action Stop Motion: How Wes Anderson Transcends Medium

Note: The author has since soured on Wes Anderson and the uniformity of his production and directing style. Try something new Wes we’ve seen it all before.

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Essay Film

A Psychological Viewing of Sorry To Bother You

Sorry to Bother You is a film with familiar social commentary expressed in increasingly strange and unfamiliar ways. It has something to say about capitalism, conformity, personal desire, and self-perception, while using multiple principles of social psychology to ground its lofty subject matter. Going above and beyond the expectations of a typical comedy/drama, it effectively […]