Why not change your mind?
We frequently change our minds – most often about trivial things like the evening’s dinner plans, but sometimes about ideas of great importance to…
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The call to your own true adventure
Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an airport, sprawled across a…
Are we getting smarter?
Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through a modern standardised intelligence…
Does the future matter?
In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda and was met by…
Alternative hedonism
Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort of car. Social scientists…
Human engineering
You know the situation is getting desperate when three bioethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In a bizarre paper titled…
Rat race to the afterlife
So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to moneymaking. Well, almost every…
Are we the barbarians?
The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which you shouldn’t), and more…
The fourth revolution
We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how we think about ourselves,…
Metaphors of the mind
Rhys Bevan-Jones works and researches in the field of psychiatry in Cardiff. He is interested in the relationship between psychology/ psychiatry and the visual…
Who are we behind closed doors?
In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in the remote Pacific. The…
Are you just a story?
In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging debate over personal identity:…
