The Self as Story: Narrative Identity and Its Discontents
We tell ourselves we are the authors of our lives. But the neuroscience of memory suggests the narrator is unreliable — and perhaps always …
Neuroscience
Free Will in an Age of Neuroscience
Benjamin Libet’s experiments suggested that unconscious brain activity precedes conscious decisions. Decades later, the implications …
The Predictive Brain: Perception as Controlled Hallucination
The brain does not passively receive sensory data. It generates predictions about what is out there and checks them against incoming …