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Welcome to the May 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the on...

The connectome is the wiring diagram of a brain, a big matrix that tells us what neurons talk to what other neurons. Understanding it is an...

Peter Singer has been an influential philosopher for a number of decades. He was a significant early voice in animal rights, has been a lead...

We are more familiar with ourselves than with anything else in the universe, but we generally don't come very close to really understanding...

Welcome to the April 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the...

There is something special about gravity. After decades of effort, there is still no convergence on the right way to reconcile Einstein's th...

"Lamarkism" is a term often attached to a seemingly discredited idea in evolutionary biology: that one organism could acquire characteristic...

In the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham suggested the Panopticon as a model of a prison where inmates could be constantly observed b...

Intelligence is a many splendored thing, especially when it comes to comparisons between species. Chimpanzees are better than humans at some...

Welcome to the March 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the...

Behaving rationally involves facing up to conditions of uncertainty; we never navigate the world with perfect confidence. Sometimes we are u...

It's possible to look at the course of history over the past few centuries and discern a movement toward increasing democracy, freedom, and...

For all that human beings spend a lot of their time thinking, it's far from obvious what that process actually entails. Part of it amounts t...

Welcome to the February 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also t...

Evolution with natural selection involves an intricate mix of the random and the driven. Mutations are essentially random, while selection p...

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," wrote W.B. Yeats. I don't know about the centre, but the tendency of things to fall apart is pr...

At any given moment, an uncountable number of events are happening, but only some of them matter to us. What does it mean for something to m...

It's become increasingly clear that the Turing Test -- determining whether human interlocutors can tell whether a conversation is being carr...

Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't quite rise to the level of...

Welcome to the December 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also t...
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