All essays filed in this edition, newest first.
When surgeons cut the brain in two, they found not one mind inside the skull but the negotiated fiction of one.
Anesthesia works almost every time. When it fails, it exposes how little we know about consciousness.
A rubber hand, two paintbrushes, and ninety seconds are enough to rewrite where your body ends.
You do not see the world. You see your brain's forecast of it, corrected only when it fails.
In darkness, the brain stops correcting its guesses, and the visions it was always making finally surface.
For decades science assumed everyone narrated their lives. A beeper, a viral tweet, and a Danish lab proved otherwise.
Lab experiments suggest the brain commits to an action before we feel ourselves choosing it. What that really means is far stranger.