We know that BCIs work and hold great promise, but lets see what history tells us about the journey

We’re making real progress providing brain computer interfaces for patients paralyzed by ALS and spinal cord injury. Less invasive approaches are looking promising.

Our actions often conflict with our beliefs. The discomfort we feel isn’t moral failure — it’s what happens when valence systems disrupt the brain’s coherent story of personal identity.

Let’s talk epistemology. Actually, let’s have magenta and cyan bid farewell to epistemology altogether

The binding problem goes away not because we solved it, but because we never needed it to begin with.

The mind arises from a collection of many maps, all working coherently to provide a model of the self in the environment. But it is the maps, no one is looking.

We only experience a single, stable perception at a time. How bistable viusal figures and Karl Friston’s big idea explain how we keep ourselves in an uncertain world

The basis of time-stamped memory, fractured identity, and the illusion of the unified mind.

The bottlenecks in our brains create awareness, meaning and coherence

The success and failure of the C. elegans simulation project points the way

Mind uploading not only fails to preserve self identity, it blinds us to the richer possibilities of machine minds as tools.

How progressive brain replacement could preserve personal identity and knowledge in a machine mind

A realistic machine minds needs preferences and memory. Plus an appropriate body.

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.

Persistence of personal identity and consciousness isn't possible in simulation. The map is not the territory.

Is personal identity maintained if you dematerialize the brain into information and move the information into a blank brain?

Is this frog self aware? Is my dog? Are you?