The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor
Sophie Papp and her family had a ritual for the recently departed. Whenever a relative died, she and her brother and cousins would all squeeze into a car and drive…
VR Still Stinks Because It Doesn’t Smell
VR still stinks, and its stench has many notes. It reeks of rich white guys, who wildly overfund and consistently overhype the always-on-the-verge-of-a-breakthrough technology. It has a festering funk of…
Can Brain Organoids Be ‘Conscious’? Scientists May Soon Find Out
In 2022 we will see brain organoids displaying dynamics that bear comparison with the complex activity patterns indicative of consciousness in humans. This will require us to rethink what counts…
A Sexy New Theory of Consciousness Is All Up in Your Feelings
So yes, you’re the homeostat, a happy little organism just trying to maintain homeostasis, a basic comfort level of needs, in the big scary world. As for everything else in…