Recent articles
Nov 6
The Spider Before the Legs — What a Model’s Hidden Workspace Reveals About Thinking Without Telling
Swap a model’s internal stand-in for “spider” with its stand-in for “ant,” and the number of legs it reports changes — before either animal ever appeared in anything it said.
Consciousness
Nov 1
The Corridor He Couldn’t See — What Blindsight Reveals About Knowing Without Experiencing
A man who insisted he saw nothing in 2008 walked an obstacle course without touching a single obstacle. What blindsight shows about the gap between acting on information and experiencing it.
Consciousness
The Language That Fit in 150 Words — What Damin Shows About What a Language Actually Encodes
A ceremonial language from Mornington Island used just 150 words to say everything a full vocabulary could — and what disappeared when the last speaker died.
Language
Jun 30
The Half-Second Before — What the Libet Experiments Actually Show About Choice
Libet’s famous 1983 experiment showed brain activity building half a second before people felt the urge to move — and got read as proof free will is an illusion. What that signal actually is turns out to be much stranger.
Neuroscience
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