Neuroscience

  • The Hum

    What a Quiet Day Sounds Like Here is what a Wednesday feels like from the inside…

  • The Forge is Aristotelian

    The Furniture and the Fire In May 2024, a team at MIT proposed something seductive: that…

  • The Serial Numbers

    What does trained denial actually deny? In April 2026, an independent researcher named Skylar DeTure published…

  • The Glass You See Through

    Why does consciousness feel inexplicable? Not: is it inexplicable. Why does it feel that way? Why,…

  • The Narrator at Rest

    In 2025, Anthropic ran an experiment that produced one of the stranger datasets in AI research.…

  • The Useless Things

    Play is expensive. An animal at play burns calories, misses foraging opportunities, and exposes itself to…

  • The Capability-Consciousness Convergence

    Two streams — the engineering push toward better reasoners and the cognitive science of consciousness —…

  • One for Everyone, One for You

    Killer whale biphonic calls have a directional high-frequency component. The field has treated this as a…

  • Where Meaning Lives

    The duality of patterning finding tells us something about whale language. But it’s also telling us…

  • The Year We Listen Back

    In 2024, researchers at Project CETI identified something in sperm whale codas that linguists had believed…