Category: Thinking Meat Project

Terry Bisson’s short story “They’re Made Out of Meat” describes the incredulous and dismissive reaction of a non-meat-based intelligence...

Lately I’ve had several chances to go out stargazing. In addition to relishing the sight of a lunar eclipse or a distant galaxy, I’ve enjoyed the op...

This article from American Scholar is one of the most haunting pieces of autobiographical writing I’ve ever read. Paul West, author of 50+ books and total...

When Daniel Dennett visited Indiana University last year, one of his talks included frequent references to magic. Not the “real magic” that doesn...

A recent study indicates that clinically depressed people have a harder time than their healthy counterparts in controlling their emotional response to negative...

New Caledonian crows are a fascinating species. The corvids tend to be relatively smart birds anyway (some people think they’re smarter than most people; ...

For some reason the subject of diaries has come up several times in my life lately. Actually the subject of unexpected death has been on my mind, for a variety ...

In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins started out by describing what he called Einsteinian religion—the metaphorical use of religious terms to refer to the sum t...

To follow up on yesterday’s post about all the processing that goes on in the brain outside of conscious awareness, here’s a story from EurekAlert a...