Is everything in the world a little bit conscious?
Panpsychism is the belief that consciousness is found throughout the universe—not only in people and…
Understanding the mind
Inside the three-pound lumps of mostly fat and water inside our heads we can, in…
Our brains exist in a state of “controlled hallucination”
When you and I look at the same object we assume that we’ll both see…
How big science failed to unlock the mysteries of the human brain
In September 2011, a group of neuroscientists and nanoscientists gathered at a picturesque estate in…
“I understand what joy is now”: An MDMA trial participant tells his story
Nathan McGee was only four years old when he experienced the trauma that would eventually…
What would it be like to be a conscious AI? We might never know.
Jefferson Test / AI subject: Robert / Date: 07.12.2098 Session #54 Interviewer: Hi, Robert. Tell…
Five poems about the mind
DREAM VENDING MACHINE I feed it coins and watch the spring coil back,the clunk of…
I taught myself to lucid dream. You can too.
When I was 19—long before I ever thought I would land a career writing about…
The Taliban, not the West, won Afghanistan’s technological war
Despite their terrible human costs—or perhaps because of them—wars are often times of technological innovation.…
Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15 billion?
The Boston genetic engineering company Ginkgo Bioworks and its CEO, Jason Kelly, have been spectacularly…