Lifeguard Lollygagging Pt 1: The Brain as Mind
I’ve been working as a lifeguard every summer for the last five summers. It gives me a lot of idle time to think about things. It also gives the sun […]
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Philosophy’s Not Dead: Wave Functions, Breakfast Cereal, & Philo of Physics
Philosophy is the oldest study in the world, arguably beginning when Plato established the Academy in 428 BCE. Simultaneously, it is arguably now the most disparaged, where every few months […]
Why Shark Week is Now Utter ‘Bull Shark’: A Shark Lover’s Frustration with the Latest TV Sell Out
By John Artenstein, “The torso has been severed in mid-thorax. There are no major organs remaining…The right arm has been severed above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the […]
The Housewarming Party: A Parable of Algorithms, Heuristics, and Behavioral Economics
Imagine that you—a 22-year-old, freshly graduated, puffed-up and proper psychology major—have just been hired at a rapidly expanding tech company in Arizona. Despite having all the relevant technological know-how, you […]
Applied Sentience 