Herd immunity: a zombie idea and a lethal strategy
The Article 21 January 2021. Available here.
Lighting fires in space is helping us make greener energy on Earth
New Scientist 16 September 2020. Available here.
Science is political, and we must deal with it
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12, 6336-6340 (2021). Available here.
Learning from the impossible
A review of Chiara Marletto’s The Science of Can and Can’t, Physics World June 2021. Available here.
The CRISPR wars
A review of The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, The Lancet 397, 1340-1341 (2021). Available here.
THE BOOK OF MINDS: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
The Book of Minds: How to understand ourselves and other beings, from animals to AI to aliens by Philip Ball
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begin to think about ‘minds’ that are not human?
In recent decades, the mind – both human and otherwise – has been explored by scientists in fields ranging from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where they might be found – including in plants, aliens, and God – The Book of Minds pulls these multidisciplinary pieces together. In so doing, it offers for the first time a unified way of thinking about what minds are and what they can do, arguing that in order to understand our own minds and imagine those of others, we need to move on from considering the human mind as a standard against which all others should be measured.
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