Biology | Neuroscience
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Chapter one
Inner Spaces
Biology | Health
What My Stroke Taught Me
The surprising, quiet nourishment of losing my internal monologue.
Biology | Neuroscience
Is There Awareness Behind Vegetative States?
The answer to a simple question may show if someone’s really “home.”
Matter | Physics
Is Matter Conscious?
Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics.
Chapter two
Morals
Biology | Animals
What the Rat Brain Tells Us About Yours
The evolution of animal models for neuroactive medicine.
Ideas | Climate
To Fix the Climate, Tell Better Stories
The missing climate change narrative.
Biology | Psychology
What Do Animals See in a Mirror?
A controversial test for self-awareness is dividing the animal kingdom.
Ideas | Aliens
Do Aliens Have Inalienable Rights?
What ET teaches us about our moral obligations.
Chapter three
Origins
Culture | Linguistics
The Kekulé Problem
Where did language come from?
Culture | Psychology
How Nostalgia Made America Great Again
When the present looks bleak, we reach for a rose-tinted past.
Culture | Neuroscience
The Deep Space of Digital Reading
Why we shouldn’t worry about leaving print behind.
Culture | Psychology
Why Poverty Is Like a Disease
Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.
Chapter four
Bugs & Bots
Culture | Literature
Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?
Literature’s evolution has reflected and spurred the growing complexity of society.
Biology | Insects
If Bugs Are Sentient, Should We Eat Them?
The ethics of eating insects.
Ideas | Philosophy
You Can’t Upload Your “Self” Into Virtual Reality
Thomas Metzinger on the nature of subjective experience.
Culture | Linguistics
Ingenious: Julie Sedivy
Why language both enraptures and deceives us.
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
We Need Conscious Robots
How introspection and imagination make robots better.
Chapter five
Equations
Biology | Neuroscience
Is Consciousness Fractal?
Our subconscious love for fractals may tell an evolutionary story.
Matter | Physics
A Theory of Consciousness Can Help Build a Theory of Everything
Neuroscience is weighing in on physics’ biggest questions.
Ideas | Psychology
Pre-Conscious Humans May Have Been Like the Borg
Does an alien race from Star Trek tell the story of human consciousness?
Matter | Physics
Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
The emperor of physics defends his controversial theory of mind.
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