consciousness
23/11/2024 - 16:06
The analogy of information as sugar is not just rhetoric. A 2019 study by researchers at Berkeley found that information acts on... →
15/10/2023 - 19:17
For a moment, I panicked. Then the teacher called on me, I opened my mouth, and words emerged. Where had they come from? Evidently, I’d had... →
24/03/2023 - 12:54
Eventually, someone would remember that they knew the winning answer: "infinity!" But the smugness was short-lived. Another kid – with a... →
30/10/2021 - 14:06
Behind it lies the motor cortex, responsible for planning and coordinating movement. To the sides: the temporal lobes, crucial for memory... →
27/03/2021 - 12:09
The book it was based on, published in 2010, has sold some 10 million copies and spent 206 weeks on the New York Times best-... →
11/11/2020 - 13:50
In Alysson Muotri’s laboratory, hundreds of miniature human brains, the size of sesame seeds, float in Petri dishes, sparking with... →
09/11/2020 - 17:50
It’s as much a personal hope as a hope for civilization: If we’re already running at full capacity, we’re stuck, but what if we’re using... →
17/07/2020 - 13:36
These were serious, debilitating symptoms. And yet, they might have seemed almost mild once CT and MRI scans presented a diagnosis: the... →
26/11/2019 - 13:57
This normal-looking suburban couple weren’t exactly like other parents. Roy was an AI and robotics expert at MIT, Patel an eminent speech... →
26/03/2019 - 19:59
At first, there were two of them, and he tried to fight, but another four crept up behind him and he was surrounded. They left him there to... →
04/05/2018 - 13:24
Why should we teach children philosophy?
We’ve discussed before how studying the humanities is all but required for good... →
20/03/2018 - 12:36
There is much we can learn by reflecting on the stories heard in childhood. Magical characters such as the Pied Piper, the talking frog and... →