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Mind & Human Nature

What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t

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Embodiment •
Consciousness •
Artificial Intelligence •
Neuroscience •
Psychology •
Materialism •
Human Sexuality •
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Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • David Polansky

What’s the Difference Between Hearing Aids and Puberty Blockers?

“We aren’t defective, just different” was the 1990s rallying cry of deaf activists who rejected medical fixes. Why have transgender activists argued that only medical tech can make them who they really are?

David Polansky

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Robert Bellafiore

Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins

The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.

Robert Bellafiore

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Debora L. Spar
  • Aryanna Garber

Does Marriage Have a Future?

From the Industrial Revolution to the pill to AI girlfriends, technology is unbundling what used to be marriage’s package deal.

Debora L. Spar and Aryanna Garber

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

We Must Steward, Not Subjugate Nor Worship AI

How to act rightly in response

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

AI Will Seem to Be Alive

How to judge prudently what kinds of beings they will be

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Gaining Situational Awareness About the Coming Artificial General Intelligence

How to see clearly what lies ahead

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Will AI Be Alive?

What lies ahead and how to face it well

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Spencer A. Klavan

You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack

In quantum mechanics, a physics that cares

Spencer A. Klavan

Review | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Nicholas Clairmont

So You’ve Decided To Carry Your Brain Around

Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience looks at how two decades of digital tech have alienated us from our bodies and the world

Nicholas Clairmont

Review | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Charles Carman

One to Zero

How to destroy the future

Charles Carman

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