George Musser

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    If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him

    Should an alien species resist, we will have discovered life.

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    Is the Hard Problem Really So Hard?

    The qualities of our experience seem impossible to describe scientifically, but maybe we’re just not thinking about them right.

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    The Biologist Blowing Our Minds

    Michael Levin is uncovering the incredible, latent abilities of living things.

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    Reality Is Your Brain’s Best Guess

    Your expectations form the way you experience the world.

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    Neuroscience Weighs in on Physics’ Biggest Questions

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

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    I Built My Own Artificial Neural Network

    With a little help from one of the 2024 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics.

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    The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

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

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    What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?

    Earth’s tremors can tweak your GPS coordinates.

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    A Hologram Shows How Space Could Pop Into Existence

    The holographic principle—with a real hologram.

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    Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will

    You make choices even if your atoms don’t.