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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Our beliefs about AI consciousness may depend less on evidence and more on self-interest.
Complexity may explain how billions of simple neurons give rise to thought, creativity, and consciousness.
As screens consume greater amounts of our time, we risk losing the habits of mind that helped us build the modern world.
Eli Burnstein’s new book reveals language’s strange power through some of history’s best-remembered quotes.
Are quantum fields real, or a mere calculational tool? 3 unique experiments show they carry energy. If energy's real, so are quantum fields.
What happens when transcendent experiences collide with a culture that lacks language for understanding them?
John Templeton Foundation
The world webcam map, a defunct format from Web 1.0, is a foil to today’s algorithmic internet.
The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.
Classics editor Henry Eliot shares his strategies for getting started, staying motivated, and finding joy in literature’s great books.
Most time travel stories involve changing the past to create a better future. "Donnie Darko" subverts that expectation, and a whole lot more.
Richard Kelly's forthcoming novel, "The Philosophy of Time Travel," ties up loose ends and introduces new mysteries to the "Donnie Darko" universe.
Predicted back in the 1960s, 2012's discovery of the Higgs boson completed the Standard Model. But the biggest Higgs puzzle still persists.
Great thinkers have long kept psychosis at a safe distance. But those asking the biggest questions may find it uncomfortably close.
Tibetan Buddhism identifies three very different ways of wasting your life.
All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
In technology, we make cumulative advances that withstand time. Not so in politics and ethics, argues philosopher John Gray.
We experience time as real. But what if it's only an illusion: an illusion that's inherently relative? Does time fundamentally even exist?
Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?