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 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)

How did the universe begin, how did life evolved, and how did human brains evolve to the point where culture could take off

Once the modern human brains was in place, how did we come to construct the societies where we are today.

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

Is a future of progress assured? Will AI help or destroy us? Are we slowly being ushered into a matrix-like state?