Issue 96: Identity and Deception

Infinite possibilities, infinite worlds

The surprising benefits of a strange theory

Daniel Nolan

Article

The self in the cloud

Our identity is made up of both the inside and the outside

Charlie Huenemann

Article

The many worlds fantasy

The incoherence of science's strangest theory

Philip Ball

Article

Beam me up, Scotty?

Identity, teletransportation and philosophy by sci-fi

Nicholas Agar

Article

The faces of faceless people

How reporting ‘refugees’ went wrong

Glenda Cooper

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Seeing is not believing

The coming deepfake dystopia

Don Fallis

Article

Me, myself and others

Loneliness, solitude and the return to people

Lars Svendsen

Article

Schopenhauer vs Nietzsche: The meaning of suffering

The answer depends on how you respond to tragedy

Joshua Foa Dienstag

Article

I cannot be cloned

The identity of clones and what it tells us about the self

Kathinka Evers

Article

Issue 95: Crisis and transformation

Beeple and nothingness

The ontology of NFT Art

Anthony Cross

Article

The universe is learning

Does treating the universe as a neural network solve the problem of quantum gravity?

Article

The price of distraction

The dangers of doom scrolling and attention as a skill

Wayne Wu

Article

The future is carbon coin

The carbon-backed currency of the future

Steve Keen

Article

Tipping points and the Earth's system

How tipping points were discovered and how to safeguard our future

Tim Lenton

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The new opium of the people

Why our mental health sector has failed

James Davies

Article

The rise of God-like beings

Overcoming the limits of being human

Mark Alan Walker

Article

Why they killed Gaddafi

Colonialism is alive and well in central banking

Ellen Brown

Article

Why we should worry about computer suffering

AI Ethics and the possibility of the extreme suffering of conscious machines

Thomas Metzinger

Article

Issue 94: Dreams of hope and jeopardy

The irrationality of transhumanists

The unreasonable flaws in the movement’s big claims

Susan B. Levin

Article

Rupturing the present

When and how will the future begin?

Gerard Delanty

Article

Future Capitalism

The free market's bright future

Paul Collier

Article

Capitalism now

The dystopia is already here

Joti Brar

Article

The meaning of death

Aging is necessary for existence

Santiago Zabala

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Dreams of a rational world

A long-term look at the future of humanity

Martin Rees

Article

How education embedded inequality

More education is not the solution to social inequality we think it is

Cristina Groeger

Article

How Not to Determine Nonsense

Beyond Popper's philosophy of science

Michael D. Gordin

Article

How to fix American democracy

From debt culture to the donor class

Christian Sarkar

Article

Issue 93: Belief, hypocrisy and reason

The myth of pure science

The case for feminist standpoint theory

Sandra Harding

Article

Idealism, panpsychism and science

Are philosophers of mind merely speculating?

Peter Vickers

Article

Blinded by the Enlightenment

Why hyper-rationalism leads to political failure

Spencer Critchley

Article

The neo-caste system

Does an ancient system persist in Modern India?

Ashwini Deshpande

Article

An exceptionally British hypocrisy

The truth behind appeals to the great British character

Lisa Bortolotti

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A strange perspective on the practice of science

Bernardo Kastrup responds to Peter Vickers

Bernardo Kastrup

Article

Addicted to technology

Big tech is preying on young lives

Bernadka Dubicka

Article

Evolution or revolution

What’s the best way forward on consciousness?

Philip Goff

Article

The three faces of racism

Inadvertent, habitual, explicit

Berit Brogaard

Article