Patrick HouseNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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Patrick House is a neuroscientist with a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His scientific research focuses on the neuroscience of free will and how mind-control parasites alter their host's behaviour. He writes about science, technology and culture for The New Yorker, Nautilus magazine and Slate; his work was selected for the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 anthology. His fiction has been published in Nature. House lives in Los Angeles, California.
1. Relative to the Observer Who Is Also a Liar
2. Like the Rise and Fall of Pinball
3. The Anxiety Felt While Prevented from Migrating
4. The Music While the Music Lasts
5. A Secondhand Markov Blanket
6. A Simulation Starring You
7. The Median Price of a Thrift-Store Bin of Evolutionary Hacks
Russian-Dolled into a Watery, Salty Piñata We Call a Head
8. Sunlight Raining Down on Gridworld
9. An Ante Meridiem Radio Drama
10. A Small Town with Too Much Food
11. The Arbiter of Elegance
12. Swinging Through Ancient Trees While Standing Still and Hearing Voices
13. Endeavoring to Grow Wings
14. The North African Rhino of Charismatic Megaquale
15. An Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Quantum-Dot-Like Non-Machiney
16. A Make-Believe Parasite with No Legs and Places to Go
17. A Sex-Starved Cricket Sculpting in Time
18. A Small (or Large) Learning Machine Made Out of Words
19. Not That Hard
20. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
