Mornings with a racing heart, a feeling of anxiety, and fragments of bizarre images in your head, or a dream about utter nonsense that lingers…
Posts published in “Philosophy & Being”
What Is Mind Uploading, Anyway? Mind uploading — sometimes called whole-brain emulation or digital immortality — is the idea that one day we might transfer…
Ronald Cotton spent ten and a half years in prison for a rape he did not commit. The victim picked him out with absolute certainty…
A pianist lost feeling in his right hand after a severe stroke, and doctors predicted he would never play again. He refused to give up,…
It takes just a single glance at an old photograph. Wrinkles, gray hair, a smile etched with life’s experiences. We see wisdom in them, but…
Migratory birds hit their target across thousands of miles, even under cloud cover. Enzymes speed up reactions beyond what a classical over-the-barrier account can explain.…
Imagine a dolphin recognizing itself in a mirror. Or a crow hiding a nut in places where it stashed them before, remembering the locations perfectly.…
Illustrative composite story (fiction inspired by real mechanisms, not an account of a specific case): Imagine a high‑school teacher in a small town who shares…
Even in the 19th century, people feared that new technologies would flood young minds with dangerous illusions and erode their ability to tell fact from fiction.…
When the Big Ear radio telescope picked up a narrowband radio signal from deep space on 15 August 1977—famously dubbed the “Wow!” signal (identified by…