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Dating Apps Are Confidence Black Holes: The Costs of Swipe-Based Romance
As real life gives us fewer places to meet, dating apps fill the gap – then quietly reshape how we experience attraction, rejection, and ourselves. The real win isn’t mastering the swipe; it’s finding someone worth logging off for. When did meeting new people become so difficult and weird? Where do people even go anymore…
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Gavin Robert Foster: The Pluralistic Evolution of Mindreading
The Pluralistic Evolution of Factive Mindreading Gavin Robert FosterPurdue University The following is a significantly abridged version of a much-longer paper. As such, there are certain qualification and nuances that are lacking. For those interested in reading the current draft, please send me an email at foste362 at purdue dot … Share this… Linkedin Facebook…
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The Optimistic Directive Revisited
Years ago, Neal Stephenson argued that contemporary science fiction was too focused on nihilism and apocalyptic scenarios. As an example, the Walking Dead was compared unfavorably to the hopeful view of the future claimed to be a common theme in the mid twentieth century. As the Walking Dead franchise is still walking and science fiction is still…
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From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life
Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as a horizonless sea of pure spacetime, black and lifeless as the inside of a skull. But, in a whisper that soon became a symphony, life…
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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
“You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge.” “This life of yours which you are living…
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