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Freedom of thought is under attack – here’s how to save your mind By rudall30/Shutterstock Simon McCarthy-Jones, Trinity College Dublin Freedom of thought stands at a critical crossroads. Technological and psychological advances could be used to promote free thought. They could shield our inner worlds, reduce our mental biases, and create new spaces for thought. Yet states and corporations are forging these advances into weapons that restrict what we think. To lose freedom of thought would be to lose something uniquely human. We share our basic emotions with animals. But only we can step back and ask “do…