The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio — A Review
Descartes made a mistake. Not a small one — not the kind you catch in…
A Universe of Consciousness by Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi — A Review
Every serious attempt to explain consciousness eventually confronts the same embarrassing fact: the thing doing…
The Madness of the Expanding Void: How the Discovery of Dark Energy Broke the Cosmologists Who Found It
In 1998, two competing teams set out to measure how fast the universe was slowing down. They found it was accelerating — into an abyss no equation had prepared them for.
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche — Oscar Levy Translation: What It Means to Read Nietzsche in Full
Philosophers are almost always summarized to death before anyone actually reads them. Nietzsche, more than…
The Dog That Proved Descartes Wrong: Pavlov’s Bell, Cartesian Animal-Machines, and the Salivating Refutation of Dualism That Happened in a St. Petersburg Laboratory
Descartes called animals flesh-machines. Pavlov’s conditioned reflex experiments — and Cold Spring Harbor’s neuroscience legacy — proved otherwise. Here’s why it matters.
Fuzzy Logic by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger: The Machine That Learned to Think in Shades of Gray
Most people assume that computers work the way courtrooms are supposed to — everything is…
