Book Tour Q: Psychedelics? So interesting? Me: "Imagine you were conscious 24/7 and a drug knocked you out, paralyzed your body, made you hallucinate all funhouse and it helps memory, clears your cell waste, prolongs your life. It's called 'sleep', not your little salvia plant."

Grateful to our speakers! @bryan_johnson, @kpfortney, @noor_siddiqui_, @KianSadeghi5, @JackScannell13, @realNathanCheng, @patrick__house, @RonjonNag, @KevinCaldweII, @JarodRutledge1, @SargeTakhar, Jean Hebert, James Arrowood, Xiaoxi Wei. For only day 1: lu.ma/hrtkte4s

I will be joining Patrick House (@patrick__house) on stage at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry on 23rd October. Patrick, a neuroscientist and writer, is known for his work on free will and consciousness. After our discussion, there will be a Q&A session. I look forward to what promises to be an engaging evening, and I hope to see you there.

LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT is out TODAY! And, I’m especially excited for three things (1) inspiring thoughts/debate on the fundamental nature of life (2) catalyzing discussion on how we might solve it and (3) your thoughts! (photo from the fab @caitlin_oh)

Announced today: a retrospective of 11 of my films (6 of my 9 features plus 5 of my shorts) at the gorgeous and ginormous @ParisTheaterNYC starting August 2. Thank you to everyone putting this together. Incredible. Please come! indiewire.com/news/general-n…

I’m so happy that this work is finally on arXiv! “Evolving reservoir computers reveals bidirectional coupling between predictive power and emergent dynamics” arxiv.org/abs/2406.19201 A huge thank you to the great team of co-authors @loopyluppi, @anilkseth and @PedroMediano!

Join us on Monday (15th) for an exploration of consciousness with @patrick__house 6pm, in the Benjamin Henry room. Book your ticket here eventbrite.co.uk/e/883425899…

Join us for an evening with @patrick__house discussing 'Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness' Monday 15th July at 6pm, tickets cost £5 Purchase here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/883425899…

For LARB Quarterly, no. 41: “Truth,” Emily Wells (@emilyennui) and Aaron Bornstein explore the similarities between so-called “child geniuses” and artificial intelligence. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…

this was fascinating (and i didn't know that OpenAI has hired in-house science-fiction consultants!) newyorker.com/science/annals…

Tales of anthropromorphized techno-capability, neuroscientist @patrick__house 's take on AI-impressionists, drawing on 🤖newyorker.com/science/annals…… #justout

Large language models can seem to do more than what we ask them to; they exhibit something that we might call creativity if a human did it. But what is actually happening in these moments? nyer.cm/YzlmSes

Happy #PubDay! Check out what's new: 🍼 BYE, BABY by Carola Lovering 🗣️ MOMMA CUSSES by Gwenna Laithland 🎲 FINLAY DONOVAN ROLLS THE DICE by Elle Cosimano 🌊 THE SOULMATE by Sally Hepworth 🧮 TROUBLE by Lex Croucher 👁️ NINETEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT CONSCIOUSNESS by Patrick House

What if our mind is just a simulation, or a radio broadcast? Check out Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by @patrick__house As entertaining as it is informative, this is the perfect book for the curious mind!📚 Out in paperback now! brnw.ch/21wHAqs

The neuroscientist Patrick House is a brilliant writer and thinker, and his tribute here to @Mobius_Games' Outer Wilds sits alongside those of @RonanFarrow and @joshscherr as a perfect encapsulation of what makes this piece of work so special:

Next week's guest is the neuroscientist and writer @patrick__house. Take four minutes out of your day to listen to Patrick movingly discuss the video game that, in his view, was released into the world with the "perfection of a bird's egg":

For anyone who always thought, "Man, I wish I could get 19 Ways for the canonical price of 14 Ways." Paperback out March 5 @StMartinsPress bit.ly/19WaysOfLookingAtCons…

A fascinating paired review @LAReviewofBooks examines two new books on the art of repetition in video games: @flantz's "The Beauty of Games" and Carmen Machado & J. Robert Lennon's "Critical Hits," published by @GraywolfPress. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…

Neuroscientist @patrick__house reviews two new books on the art of repetition in video games—“Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games,” edited by Carmen Machado and J. Robert Lennon, and “The Beauty of Games” by Frank Lantz. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…

"Drawing on the archives of sickness and her own experience as a patient, @emilyennui demands a more nuanced understanding of the diagnostic categories of mental illness and biological illness" A MATTER OF APPEARANCE in @NewYorker @HZeavin newyorker.com/books/under-re…

It's baffling to me that some of y'all see stuff in your mind. You SEE it? The way your eyes see? I always thought "visualize" meant thinking of the words/ideas/feelings associated with a thing, not actual visuals. I am such a total 5 on this scale I didn't know 1-4 existed.