Federico Faggin invented the first microprocessor. Half a century of building machines that process information — and then he spent the second half of his life arguing that this was never “the thing” itself. A chip can hold every fact about pain. Weight it, model it, run it a billion times a second. It will […]
I have to admit, I am a huge fan of Michael Pollan. His latest book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, brings together scientific, philosophical, literary, and psychedelic perspectives to ask what consciousness is, who has it, and why. Pollan argues that consciousness is under siege — and ends with the idea that learning […]