This is remarkable. How do we talk about [and research] heavy things with the empathetic grace they deserve while also taking responsibility for contributing something valuable AND not self destructing? Ed Yong’s advice.

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Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atl...

How did John Hopfield decide to work on the topic that led to his Nobel Prize? "I was now looking for A PROBLEM, not a problem ... How mind emerges from brain is to me the deepest question posed by our humanity. Definitely A PROBLEM." More here:

Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Now What?

John J. Hopfield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. October 2018 John J. Hopfield Now What? (Article in PDF format) My first full-ti...

The solution: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.79.8.2554 "In the model network each "neuron" has elementary properties, and the network has little structure. Nonetheless, collective computational properties spontaneously arose."

Help me understand humanity. You’re running or walking laps around a square park. Which way do you go?