Philosophy

How Julian Jaynes’ famous 1970s theory is faring in the neuroscience age.

Father Christmas bears some striking similarities to the divinities of many religions.

We can experience nothingness, but does it actually exist?

A child asks, and war answers.

“I did not have to believe anything irrational about the universe.”

The physicist on writing, the writer on physics.

From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics.

Shining a light on the spark that separates man from beast.

Understanding the impermanence of everything—including ourselves.