Augmented Animals
Here’s an unsettling article from Wired about a book called Augmented Animals by James Auger. Auger suggests that we develop devices to help animals overc...
Category: Thinking Meat Project
Posts from my blog the Thinking Meat Project (2006–2018)
Thinking meat in the cosmos
In astronomy, some words start out as proper nouns: Sun, Moon, Earth, Jupiter. We realized that other stars are also glowing balls of gas like our Sun, and so w...
A relationship of memory
At my mother’s funeral, someone said to me, “You know, she’s not really gone.” I’ve thought about that a lot since then. I was rai...
Genetic basis of human variety
The Edge recently published a thought-provoking essay by Armand Leroi, plus several responses from others, on the subject of the genetic factors underlying norm...
Why Thinking Meat?
I’m not sure I remember exactly when I first started to use the phrase “thinking meat”. It might have been when I was reading an article about...