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…
Michelangelo’s Pietà — The Physics of Grief Carved Into Carrara Marble
She’s holding a grown man’s corpse in her lap and the marble makes it look…
The Survival of the Most Adaptive Algorithm: How Darwinian Selection Is Literally Being Coded Into Neural Networks
Neuroevolution isn’t just a metaphor — it’s a literal implementation of natural selection. How Uber AI, Google Brain, and NEAT are building systems where neural architectures compete, reproduce, and die.
Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son — When the Enlightenment Ate Itself
He painted it on his dining room wall. Not for sale, not for exhibition. Just…
The Writings of William James: A Useful Mind in an Impatient World
Edited by John J. McDermott, The Writings of William James is not a book you…
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett — The Book That Finished What Nietzsche and Dawkins Started
Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, from complications of…
