Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind of operation, the patient was wide awake, u…

Up till now [the development of proto-consciousness], we can suppose, nervous systems solved the 'Now what do I do?' problem by a relatively simple balancing a…

I find it breathtaking [...] that when musical composition competitions are held, the contestants often do not submit tapes or records (or live performances) o…