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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.
Instead of a mental illness, some research suggests that psychopathy — in moderation — is a reasonable life strategy.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
Ukraine destroyed a railway to prevent passage from Transnistria into Ukraine.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Research shows that octopuses are sentient, emotional creatures.
There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.
What responsibility do social media companies like Twitter have to free speech? It depends on whether they are "landlords" or "publishers."
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.
Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.
It didn't look like anything I'd seen before, but I'd be a great fool to consider "aliens" as a reasonable possibility.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
We take for granted that time is real. But what if it's only an illusion, and a relative illusion at that? Does time even exist?
There is strong evidence that invertebrates are sentient beings.
Moral dilemmas reveal the limitations of ethical principles. Oddly, the most principled belief system might not have any principles at all.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.