The Consciousness Column

Or: How to Live Differently

Uncovering the Truth of Our Existence and Solving Science’s Greatest Mystery

The Intellectual History of a Tangled Relationship, with Barnaby Raine

(Consider the Basic Income)

Humanity’s Most Urgent Pursuit

How Structure is Fundamental to the Nature of Consciousness, Behavior, Complex Systems and the Future of Society

Complexity Economics & Ending Poverty

Policies for Post-Scarcity

Designing for Emergence

From Radical Individualism Towards Democratized Interdependence

Yelling at Culture, About Myself (But Also About Culture)

Feeling the Loss of Biodiversity as the Loss of Our Own Limbs

If sentience devolves into tedium, we’re doing it wrong

Down-Regulating Dogmas

Some Notes on Sentience & the Neighborhood

The Written Pursuit of Waking Up

Factories of Attention & Ecosophy

The shrimp’s mystery is chilled oxygen coursing through my nervous system, my sense of being alive reopening to impossible horizons…

Pascal, Faulkner, and Fearing Our Thoughts