S1-103 – When a mechanism becomes a model
A thermostat that almost thinks A thermostat on the wall is doing something that, described carefully,… Read more
S1-301 – Without words, no world
How language makes thought possible, and what it makes impossible In the 1970s, a team of… Read more
S1-206 – A myriad of maps
How we hold many contradictory models at once In 1956, the social psychologist Leon Festinger published… Read more
S1-201 – You have never seen reality
There is an experiment so simple it requires nothing beyond this page. If we hold our… Read more