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Why Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip will be the end of you
Think twice before getting excited about this ambitious project to rebuild human beings in the image of machines
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Is "who are you?" the ultimate sci-fi question?
You find yourself at the bottom of a shocking number of remarkable science fiction stories
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Is your bug-eyed space-monster a person?
Space opera assumes that aliens will be people, but maybe that's not what intelligence looks like
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Wear a mask to help stop The Thing
What John Carpenter's cult classic shows about the futility of giving into fear and paranoia
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The sublime terror of a distant galactic catastrophe
The Hubble telescope peeps up the universe's dress and shows us a miracle
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Why determinism isn't true and human freedom is real (Part 2)
Free will isn't what you should be worried about
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Why determinism isn't true and human freedom is real (explained in about 15 minutes)
Physicists may talk a big game but it's all show
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Why Blindsight isn't all that great a story
Peter Watt's grimdark nihilism mixes the best of SF speculation with unlikeable people and a depressing message
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Can you write an existential "anti-hero" without the grimdark?
Fiction needs real good guys & bad guys.