Articles and Short Fiction/Poems
New York Times Opinionator The Stone
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love A.I.
Op-Ed On Machine Understanding 9/21/2015
A Life of Meaning (Reason Not Required)
Op-Ed On the Biology of Meaning- 09/05/2016
Donald Trump, Our A.I. President
Op-Ed on Donald Trump as Primitive AI Machine 05/22/2017
Aeon
Our world outsmarts us
On our cognitive limitations 05/04/2017
The Theory of Mind Myth
Why we cannot know what another is thinking. 07/23/2018
Like The Chemical Process of Osmosis, Migration Is Unstoppable
Why immigration isn't a moral question, but a physical process of moving from less to more. 03/2019
Nautilus
Reason Won't Save Us: It’s time to accept the limits of how we think.
My Case Against Demonstrable Conscious Thought 10/17/2019
The Brain On Trial
It’s not fair to ask jurors to vote on a death penalty. 9/5/2013
Where Science and Story Meet
4/22/2013
When Neurology Becomes Theology
My perspective on research into consciousness 06/15/2017
LATEST PROJECT
Symptoms of Consciousness: Where Science and Story Meet
Short essays, stories, poems, and personal observations that explore the many paradoxes and contradictions inherent in scientific inquiry. (available at Cambridge Quarterly Journal of Healthcare Ethics).
Favorite Salon.com Articles
Mind Reader
AskDr.Bob
Other Salon Stuff
Selected Poems/Short Stories
Air Casts A Long Shadow
Poem about the pre-MRI brain imaging technique of pneumoencephalography