Could the structure the universe support brain-like activities at interplanetary distances?

Computational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion and love?

I have a nagging suspicion that we misinterpret quantum mechanics. I am probably wrong, but I believe that quantum computers may always be outperformed by classical algorithms.

Atheists and enlightened religious people often talk past each other, because they associate quite different concepts with ‘God’. Let us attempt to sort them.

Spacetime might not be real, but weakly emergent. The computer that runs the universe does not index particles within a spacetime matrix, but only maintains a tensor network with quantized properties.

Twitter’s switch from ‘favs’ to ‘likes’ is more significant and meaningful than you might think.