The Omnivore's Dilemma: Lower carbon footprint vs better animal welfare ...Or go vegan ourworldindata.org/what-are-the-t…

Ventral nerve cord of drosophila, "where the central nervous system meets the rest of the body." thetransmitter.org/connectome/new…

Overtones are integer multiples of the fundamental, so you can always determine what the fundamental is when you know the overtones. Your brain can figure it out with no conscious effort on your part. medium.com/@smbrinson/why…

AI on the road to alcohlism theguardian.com/technology/202…

As a cognitive scientist I’ve always been skeptical of the theory that “scale is all you need” (models with more layers, bigger training data) to duplicate or exceed human intelligence. A majority of surveyed AI researchers agree. @garymarcus newscientist.com/article/247175…

New Papers in the Science of Mind medium.com/p/new-papers-w…

Are you truly free? Or are you following a script you didn’t write? Explore how great minds like Hume, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, and many more, wrestled with the question of free will. Their ideas collide in Free Will, the first book from Collosum: collosum.co

Are you truly free? Or are you following a script you didn’t write? Great minds from Hume, to Tolstoy and Nietzsche, all wrestled with the question of free will. Their ideas collide in Free Will, the first book from Collosum. Get your copy here 👇 collosum.gumroad.com/l/free-will

This is what it sounds like to be alive open.substack.com/pub/bigthinkme…

"What gets represented in the [world] model, and to what level of fidelity? Is it innate or learned, or some combination of both? And how do you detect that it’s even there at all?" quantamagazine.org/world-models-a…

This is a nice atlas of theories of consciousness. Relative to your own view, there will be some weird ones. consciousnessatlas.com

Did you ever really have a choice? Read more: collosum.co/three-versions…

"At a basic level, what tipping point models show, regardless of their uncertainties, is that stability in the Earth’s climate is not something to be taken for granted. Our climate is not preordained to remain hospitable forever. So why chance it?" quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-cl…

"If we are building a hermit crab, why not put some things that look like spatulas on the top of the face? Why not? That is the arthropod way of evolving: when in doubt, add some legs. Add some spatulas to your head." Peter Godfrey-Smith, Metazoa

Humans and livestock make up 95% of the world’s mammal biomass; wild mammals are just 5% ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-b…

“There is an urgent need for rigorous methods to assess AI systems for consciousness, but significant uncertainty about relevant issues in consciousness science.” open.substack.com/pub/collosum/p…

This selection of books will keep your neurons firing long into 2026 🧠⚡️ collosum.co/best-books-on-…

"While forced labor remains a problem today, its decline is one of the biggest social and economic changes in history. [...] This shows that large changes to our societies and economies are possible — even those that were once unimaginable." ourworldindata.org/slavery

As Brain Organoid Science Grows More Complex, So Do the Questions undark.org/2026/02/26/bra… via Undark Magazine

The most interesting studies, essays, and arguments on minds, brains, and machines. open.substack.com/pub/collosum/p…