Issue_69
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Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person or machine devoid of experience could reflect on experience it doesn’t have.Photograph by Ars Electronica / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The Australian philosopher David […] -
The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World
How a math professor learned to stop worrying and love algebraic geometry. -
How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The fabric of space and time is widely believed by physicists to be emergent, stitched out of quantum threads according to an unknown pattern. And for 22 years, they’ve had a toy model of how emergent space-time can work: a theoretical […] -
How the Universe Remembers Information
A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox. -
The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage
If, as the research shows, our moral outrage is highly sensitive to actions but not consequences, we might want to treat feelings of moral outrage—whether others’ or our own—skeptically. Photograph by Vjacheslav_Kozyrev / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The episode last month at the Lincoln Memorial, involving […]
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What Dark Matter Needs Are New Kinds of Experiments
After 30 years and no results, it’s time to support more entrepreneurial physicists.
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Watch and See: The Medium Really Is the Message
How communication technologies shaped the arts and sciences.
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Why We Stink at Tackling Climate Change
Global threats result from human culture outrunning human biology.
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When Gravity Breaks Down
Theoretical physicists have known since the 1930s that quantum gravity is necessary to bring order into the laws of nature, but 80 years on, a solution isn’t anywhere in sight.Photograph by Andrea / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is more than […]
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How to Get Close to a Black Hole
Want to understand the most mysterious object in the universe? Make one at home.
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Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think
Two philosophers of science diagnose our age of fake news.
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New Evidence for the Strange Geometry of Thought
The brain may represent concepts in the same way that it represents space and your location, by using the same neural circuitry for the brain’s “inner GPS.” -
Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab
What is neuroscience doing to art? -
How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered
Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.