Here you’ll find my non-academic writing—essays, blog posts, and articles aimed at broader audiences interested in philosophy, cognitive science, and the history of ideas.
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An exploration of society’s obsession with quantifying every aspect of life, from sleep quality to political freedom, and the dangerous consequences of reducing complex human realities to simple metrics.
The dramatic story of a 25-year bet between a neuroscientist and a philosopher, a multi-million-dollar experiment to settle the “hard problem” of consciousness, and the explosive academic fallout that followed.
Dismantling the myth of a single uninterrupted highway in the history of mathematics by comparing Greek deductive reasoning with Babylonian pragmatic algorithms—and exploring how the latter anticipated modern computer science.
Exposing the dangerous myth of technological lie detection—from fatal polygraph failures to the seductive allure of fMRI brain scans—and why truth is a social relationship, not a biological marker.