psi-fi – Page 3 – Psychological fiction in a technology world

Paying Attention

Paying Attention

PF Input attention, consciousness, Descartes, homunculus, psi-fi ideas, theater of the mind, thought

Time and Consciousness

Time and Consciousness

PF Input mental causality, mental time, sci-fi ideas, stream of consciousness, time travel

Consciousness and Psi-Fi

Consciousness and Psi-Fi

PF Input consciousness, embodiment, psi-fi, Science of Consciousness, TSC Conference, Tucson

When is a Robot Not a Robot?

When is a Robot Not a Robot?

Reviews android motivation, androids, Ariel Winter, artificial intelligence, Barren Cove, empathy, feelings, robot family

The Planarian Perplexity

The Planarian Perplexity

PF Input engram, flatworm, James V. McConnell, memory, memory storage, planaria, psi-fi ideas, regeneration

Runs Out of Psi-Fi

Runs Out of Psi-Fi

Reviews A World Out of Time, aging, global warming, hard sci-fi, immortality, MacGuffin, Niven, time dilation, time travel

Chaotic Linguistics

Chaotic Linguistics

PF Input, Reviews ayahuasca, Chomsky, Ian Watson, language, nature-nurture, psycholinguistics, recursion, The Embedding, universal grammar

A Dead-on Psi-fi Topic

A Dead-on Psi-fi Topic

Reviews Embassytown, language, metaphor, Mieville, simile, symbols

Mind-Bending Future

Mind-Bending Future

Reviews Animal Farm, Futurological Congress, Futurology, hard psi-fi, linguistic humor, P.K. Dick, psychedelics, social satire, Stanislaw Lem, Ubik

Barely Psi-fi

Reviews Chinese sci-fi, Cultural Revolution, hard sci-fi, Liu Cixin, nanowire, SETI, three-body-problem