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Artificial intelligence is getting very good at answering questions. It can write essays, generate images, discover proteins, debug code, diagnose disease. Each week brings another announcement that sounds, at least on the surface, like a boundary being crossed. People keep reaching for the same phrase: this changes everything. But beneath

We live in a society that thinks genius can be measured with a bank balance. Every week, someone from the billionaire class offers a sweeping vision of what consciousness “really” is or what humanity “needs” to survive. These aren’t modest proposals. They’re cosmologies—delivered with the confidence of

Hacking biology was only the opening act

Meditation can calm the mind—but clarity is the real prize. From biohacking to brainwaves, this is a look at what happens when feeling better isn’t enough.

Reason, Trauma, and the Second Religiousness of Our Time

Oh, the irony. Spirituality claims to be about the soul, and yet, very few spiritual systems can actually define what the soul is—let alone describe how it works or offer a way to verify its existence. But imagine, just for a moment, what would happen if someone could. What