If AI is modeled only on human intelligence, will it inherit only human ways of seeing the world?
You may actually be on the same wavelength.
How to look cool in post-war France in black and white photos.
We don’t learn from history because we can’t learn from history.
Here are three ways to do it better.
It’s OK to hate a frigid pond.
You are held, shaped, and sustained by a thousand invisible hands.
A conversation about intelligence and consciousness with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith.
When your head is full of information, how can you actually make use of it?
Wonder is like a guest you haven’t planned for.
One does not simply make a meme go viral.
It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.
How deep is your kink?
This is my country and this is what we stand for. At least for now.
Evolution may have built our brains, but it didn’t build them to find truth.
If happiness is an absolute good, would 1 billion slightly happy people be better than 1 million incredibly happy people?
The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.
How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.
Rutger Bregman’s “Moral Ambition” wants us to aim our careers not at money but solving the world’s biggest problems.
What’s the point in fighting a made up monster?
The strange, undulating sound of mathematics.
A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldrake, ours does neither.
If you feel like you’re missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.
In the tears and laughter of a single life, you find the grief and joy of humanity.
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
The award-winning nature writer, Robert Macfarlane, talks with Big Think about how to reacquaint ourselves with the rivers in our lives.
Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?