As far back as the year 2000, a bookstore on Charing Cross Road in central London bore a sign that said "Any Amount of Books." These days one often hears people conflate not only "amount" and "number" ...
Is our consciousness continuous, or does it occur in discrete chunks? At first glance, this may seem like a strange question. It seems, to us, that our lives are like a movie, where we are perceiving ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As far back as the year 2000, a bookstore on ...