Most empathy interprets another person's experience through our own history and reactions. Real understanding may require setting aside that protective frame and confronting what their...
We like to imagine that security is something we own, but most of it depends on remaining useful to systems...
An essay about systems, feedback loops, and the gap between an event and the mechanism that produced it. Why more...
Is consciousness produced by the brain, or is the brain itself something that appears inside consciousness? This essay explores the...
Walk down a busy street and look at the faces. Every single person you pass is living in a movie...
The tragedy of human interaction is often attributed to a failure of language. We operate on the comforting assumption that...
Most people try to fix their life at the level of individual decisions. This essay goes one layer deeper. It...
How far into time your mind actually looks is one of the most practical parts of intelligence. This essay breaks...
