While society obsesses over IQ scores and academic achievements, the most intelligent people are quietly displaying subtle ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that ...

Across astronomy and astrobiology, a quiet but profound shift is underway. Instead of assuming the galaxy teems with ...

Highly intelligent people are guided by a different internal compass. They aren't necessarily trying to stand out but naturally gravitate away from things others pursue without question. While average ...

Everyone has a threshold for what's too much, but highly intelligent people tend to be shaped more intensely by how their minds process the world around them. What might seem harmless or enjoyable to ...

Theory of mind refers to the ability to attribute mental states such as beliefs, desires, goals, and intentions to others, and to understand that these states are different from one’s own. Computers ...

Post 4 in a series on AI and the Evolution of Cognition. In the first three entries of this series—Thinking About Thinking, In the Post-Cognitive World, and The Three Stages of Cognitive Collapse—I’ve ...