Dispatches
Longer, researched pieces. A thinker, a concept, a phenomenon — with real intellectual weight.
The reducing valve: how a new science is proving what Huxley saw on mescaline
In 1954 Aldous Huxley said the brain filters out more reality than it lets in. Seventy years later, computational neuroscientists are building mathematical models that say he was right.
Read →The voice that was always there: what a 14-year-old's inner companion tells us about consciousness
A new study documents a gifted teenager who has held an inner dialogue with a persistent, autonomous-feeling presence since early childhood. The researchers call it non-pathological. The implications are anything but ordinary.
Read →Donald Hoffman and the case against the world you think you see
Evolution did not shape your senses to show you reality. It shaped them to keep you alive. Those are not the same thing — and the difference changes everything.
Read →The case for DMT: what the molecule keeps showing people
Tens of thousands of people have broken through on DMT and come back with the same report. Independent, cross-cultural, consistent. At some point, the convergence itself becomes the evidence.
Read →What is consciousness? The question science cannot answer
Consciousness is the most familiar thing in existence and the least understood. Every scientific field that tries to explain it runs into the same wall. Here is why — and what that wall might mean.
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