🧠Mind & Machines

Why AI does the hard things first Computers aced chess and calculus before they could see or walk. The easy human stuff is the hard problem. Empathy is intelligence Empathy is theory of mind — intelligence pointed at other minds — and maybe the most important safety problem in AI. Who moved your arm? Brain-stimulation and stroke studies where people invent reasons for actions they never chose. Free will and morality Why I can't make free will hold still — and a guess that the feeling of it is a social convenience. Why my childhood memories are thin Why mine are thin and my sister's are cinematic — and what that says about how memory really works.

🔭The Future

You can predict technology, not science Future discovery is unpredictable; future technology mostly isn't. Why the science is the bottleneck. There's only one future Look for a credible long-term future for humanity and you find just one — a merge of people and machines. When only the idea matters If nanotech and evolved software erase the cost of building, the only thing left is the idea.

🔬Science & Skepticism

What makes science science Falsifiability, predictive power, and self-correction — what actually separates science from everything else. On falsification Newton was "falsified" and we still use him every day. What it actually means — and why engineering isn't science. Quirks of belief Placebo, the "God gene," and seeing patterns that aren't there. A few uncomfortable findings about belief. Reason through pure logic The crack in "I think, therefore I am" — pure reason needs a few premises taken on faith. Metaphysics and the supernatural "Supernatural" just means "not yet explained" — a prayer thought experiment that puts even that inside science.

🌌Cosmos & Emergence

The universe as a computer Planck length and time as the simulation's memory and clock, and quantum probability as lazy evaluation. Order out of chaos Why the universe keeps climbing from chaos to structure — and whether intelligent life was inevitable. The evolution of everything Evolution applied to molecules, brains, ideas, and whole cultures — and science as a way to evolve ideas.

✝️Belief & Religion

Being human and religion Religion was humanity's first tool for asking why we exist. The question has outlived the tool. The evolution of faith Faith and superstition as byproducts of a pattern-detecting brain. After Michael Shermer. Why creationism isn't science Set aside whether it's true: can creationism or intelligent design even function as science? Why I don't believe Not a single argument but a way of deciding what to trust, applied consistently.