The Idea Incarnate
How Victor Frankenstein’s thoughts ran away from him
What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
How Victor Frankenstein’s thoughts ran away from him
The trouble with the idea that we can play God, but ethically
Why digital resurrection is so creepy — and how it’s hastening Hollywood’s decline into a soulless factory
Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.
How the process of evolution gave us moral instincts but the theory of evolution undermines moral reasoning
Problems with puberty suppression in treating gender dysphoria
Why we talk in circles about experience