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Do Synchronized Brainwaves Make Us Get Along?
Recently, I’ve come across a bunch of popular press articles talking about brain synchronization. Apparently, whether or not we click with someone is “dictated” by whether our brain waves sync up with theirs. Those happy in their marriages...
Slender Black Threadlets
One of my favorite passages of non-fiction is from the astronomer Carl Sagan, talking about an image taken in 1990 from Voyager 1 as it left the solar system. At a distance of 6.4 billion kilometers, the spacecraft turned its camera back, a...
The Only Cure?
A review of Mark Solms’ latest book
Is Freud still relevant?
Should you do a PhD?
When I talk to young people online about science and philosophy, there’s one question that often comes up: Should they do a PhD?
Everything depends on circumstance. I think there are some situations where someone very obviously should do a...
Are we wet robots?
Are our brains computers?
Neuroscientists will often give a heavily qualified “yes” to this question. The brain is different from a desktop computer. It doesn’t have a graphics card or a hard drive. There’s no clean distinction between har...
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PhD in neuroscience, degrees in philosophy and computer science, postdoctoral training at Harvard. I write about science and philosophy of mind. Occasional science fiction author.
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