George Musser

A theory of consciousness can help build a theory of everything.

The first artificial neural networks weren’t abstractions inside a computer, but actual physical systems made of whirring motors and big bundles of wire. Here I’ll describe how you can build one for yourself using SnapCircuits, a kid’s electronics kit. I’ll also muse about how to build a network that works optically using a webcam. And […]

We’ve made an artificially panpsychic world, where technology and nature are one.

Earth’s tremors can tweak your GPS coordinates.

The holographic principle—with a real hologram.

You make choices even if your atoms don’t.

A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox.

The Arais do not merely dissect illusions, but can generate them, taking an image that looks boringly normal and making subtle changes, to color and contrast, to fool our brains. If you don’t know how something works, break it. Science is built on creative destruction: Much of what neuroscientists know of the brain, they know […]

Neuroscience is weighing in on physics’ biggest questions.

The origin of quantum noise is the modern incarnation of a millennia-old debate.