How do some humans try to solve some simple formal problems? This article is concerned with the psychology of human thinking …

Brains are alive, part of a living organism. Biology can tell us a great deal about how brains work qua living tissue.. But what can biology tell us is about what’s it like to be a brain, to have a brain, to feel, think, and want with a brain?

Mechanical analog computers had their origins in Naval Gunnery in World War I […] mechanical analog computers remained of considerable military importance certainly until well into the 1960s and have only been superseded by digital computing systems in the 1970s.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck…

Even the simplest brains are awesome computational instruments, they do computations we do not know how to do, in ways we do not understand…

Hemispherectomy… surgeons have performed this operation hundreds of times for disorders uncontrollable in any other way

If we liken the nervous currents to electric currents, we can compare the nervous system below the hemispheres to a direct circuit from sense-organ to muscle

The firm should have the right to take back what it produced — the collection of artificial organs illegally masquerading as Mr Jones …

“There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god…

Even if we cannot upload our consciousness to the cloud, what if we could send our own sensations and memories to another person? Can we really transfer information brain-to-brain over the internet? Do we need to worry that this could turn us into remotely controlled puppets? Never fear! Captain Cyborg is here to test invasive technologies so you don’t have to!