George Musser

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

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

Your expectations form the way you experience the world.

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.