The Happiness of Pursuit

Cognitive science for the trip of your life.

by Shimon Edelman, Ph.D.

"What Do You Mean... Human?"

Does a dissolution of all desires make a person more than, or merely other than, human? And what would happiness be without the pursuit? Read More

The Ghost Constructed by the Machine

The physical characteristics of the human body place severe constraints on how the brain computes the mind, thereby shaping the ghost constructed by the machine. Read More

Livin' La Vida Virtual

We look at the world through two eyes, but see it as one. This fact has interesting implications regarding the question of whether or not the world we perceive is real. Read More

The Machineries of Joy

Coming to terms with our instinctive yearning for the future is a good recipe for making the most of the only time during which we are alive: the present. Read More

You but arrive at the city to which you were destin’d — you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction, before you are call’d by an irresistible call to depart. [ Leaves of Grass: Song of the Open Road (82:11) — WALT WHITMAN] Read More