The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Art becomes that spark—creating ...

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

The big thinkers at Aperture discuss the odds of human existence from a cosmic perspective. Tommy Lee Jones and family ...

There’s an almost fretful anxiety in the voices and writings of materialists when they discuss consciousness. Inevitably, they become frustrated and angered when theists point out science’s inability ...

We humans are very multifaceted and multifunctional creatures that are "composed of" multiple interrelated layers, which have an influence on our verbal and nonverbal behaviour. According to William ...

Two weeks ago, the Church reminded us of our mortality by tracing ashen crosses on our foreheads. During Lent, we’re reflecting on what that encounter with mortality should mean. Philosophers have ...

The fact that we humans are pumping more and more carbon dioxide into the air is well-known, but the extent to which the gas is building up in the atmosphere continues to surprise scientists, and not ...

Art An Overly Optimistic Take on Our Post-Human Existence In the years when I taught an undergraduate art history survey course, I would invariably encounter a student who wanted to know how ancient ...

Dostoevsky’s quote of the day reflects on life’s deeper purpose, reminding readers that true meaning lies not in survival ...

In filmmaker George A. Romero's 1978 zombie horror classic, "Dawn of the Dead," the character Peter (Ken Foree) tells Francine (Gaylen Ross) that the creatures they are fighting off are part of ...

More than 1,000 of technology's top talent names — including Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and politician Andrew Yang — have signed an open letter urging AI pioneers to pump ...