The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers — The Last Wall Science Hasn’t Scaled
A review of David Chalmers’ landmark 1996 book The Conscious Mind, and why the hard problem of consciousness matters more in the age of AI than ever before.
Atom by Lawrence Krauss — You Are Made of Dead Stars, and That Should Change Everything
A review of Lawrence Krauss’s Atom — the biography of an oxygen atom from the Big Bang to life on Earth, and what it means that science, not religion, tells us who we are.
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche — The Book Where He Burned Down His Own House
A review of Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human — the book where he dismantled Wagner, Schopenhauer, and his own Romantic mythology, one aphorism at a time.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Man Knew What He Was Writing About
A review of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment — and why the biography matters as much as the novel. The man lived the darkness before he wrote it.
The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick — You Are Nothing But Your Neurons
Francis Crick opens his 1994 book with a sentence that reads less like a scientific…
Apes, Angels and Victorians by William Irvine: When Science Found Its Bulldog
Few intellectual partnerships in history have been as lopsided in public glory and as quietly…
