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Our fall issue is here! Made In Our Image explores the philosophies of AI and what they reveal about us, with @dioscuri, @mer__edith, @max_spero_, @philosophyminis and more. Get the magazine: bigthink.com/membership/?ut…
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How did chemistry come to write its own code? Physicist Paul Davies, author of The Demon in the Machine, calls it the deepest mystery of life’s origin, and traces it from Schrödinger to two-headed flatworms and a possible shadow biosphere on Earth. Watch it here: bigthink.com/series/full-in…
bigthink.com The laws of the universe are unable to explain these origin mysteries Physicist Paul Davies explores how chemistry first learned to write its own code, and what that reveals about the origin of life. Philosopher Joe Folley doubts there’s a core self waiting to be found. In a Big Think Conversation with @philosophyminis, he argues the self gets built rather than excavated, and that the attention it takes to build one is being quietly thinned out. Watch it here: bigthink.com/series/convers…
bigthink.com Stop trying to find yourself Philosopher Joe Folley on why the self is made rather than found, how attention got thinned into productivity, and why Camus’s later work matters most. In 1933, Fritz Zwicky presented evidence for “dark matter” and coined the term, but most astronomers dismissed it until Vera Rubin’s work in the 1970s. Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel (@StartsWithABang) asks which of them, if either, really discovered it. Read it here: bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…
bigthink.com Was dark matter first discovered by Fritz Zwicky or Vera Rubin? Back in 1933, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. Only 40 years later, with Vera Rubin's work, did we take it seriously. Narcissistic people are often charming at the dinner party and cruel in the car ride home, which tells you they can control it. Clinical psychologist @DoctorRamani, author of It’s Not You, breaks down five types of narcissism and how to spot them. Watch it here: bigthink.com/series/full-in…
bigthink.com Clinical psychologist: 5 types of narcissism and how to identify them Clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula explains what narcissism really is, how to spot it, and why most of what circulates online gets it wrong.