The Plasma State

Memory is a strange phenomenon.

Why did evolution ever bother to create consciousness at all?

The brain can fabricate a lot of things from nothing.

It's a fragile loop. Sometimes a gentle shake disrupts everything.

Could your deepest philosophy is merely the chemical whisper of your gut microbiome?

It takes roughly 80 to 100 milliseconds for external sensory information to be gathered, processed, and projected into conscious awareness.

Does the person under anesthesia cease to exist forever, leaving an entirely new conscious instance to inhabit their memories upon waking?

Now I seem to have conflicting desires myself

AI may steal every human capacity, except the spark of a genuine unintentional errors.