#mind & matter


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  • OODA Loop

    We used to navigate by the stars. Now we have 2.7 seconds to decide who lives and dies. Welcome to the OODA loop.

  • Putting on Airs

    What is it with this word? It’s so versatile, so devastating. But what does it even mean?

  • Questions Looking for Answers

    Dyson captures a paradox here that extends far beyond computing.

  • Super-Signalling

    Evolution has created a nasty cognitive hack that ethologists call the super-stimulus. I’d like to propose a term for a related behaviour.

  • What nerve!

    The Wim Hof Method is backed up by science, actually.

  • Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Came Back to Bite Richard Feynman

    The further we zoom in on Mother Nature, the clearer it becomes that, at its most fundamental level, science resembles ‘witch-doctoring’ more than anything else.