Aeon1d
The consulting office reflects the personality of the therapist, while also subtly shaping the experience of their patients
The consulting office reflects the personality of the therapist, while also subtly shaping the experience of their patients ...
Aeon2d
A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application
When Lars von Trier seeks applications for a ‘female girlfriend/muse’, a filmmaker puts forward her 72-year-old lesbian ...
Aeon2d
Since states are founded on violence and expulsion, their existence is always bound up in thorny questions about justice
Since states are founded on violence and expulsion, their existence is always bound up in thorny questions about justice ...
Aeon6d
Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?
Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?
Aeon13d
How the Moon became a place
For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...
Aeon8d
Did you think you were safe?
Tuft of hair on top, double chin bulging from the bottom, the offending arm held out like a weapon. A wicked smile that said: ...
Aeon6d
Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators
River bank or bank account? How chatbots learned to make the quantum leap to context by training on billions of prompts ...
Aeon13d
The many ways a lizard tongue sticks, grasps, pinches and plops – in slo-mo
Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue ...
Aeon5d
We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again?
is assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University.