Project

Thinking About Minds

I’m interested in getting to grips with four main things:

How did life evolve up to the point of producing modern human brains (13.4bn ya to 40,000 ya)
How did human culture develop to bring us to the current day
How do we interpret and interact with the world via our brains
Where are we going now (with a particular focus on screens, democracy, AI, and climate change)

Brains and Minds

What is consciousness? How do we understand and interact with the world

The Future

Is a future of progress assured? Will AI help or destroy us? Will we lose critical thinking skills? Are we slowly being ushered into a matrix-like state of screen addiction?