Death used to be simple. Your heart stopped, you stopped breathing, the doctor sighed, closed your eyes with two fingers, and that was it. Now we have ventilators, defibrillators, ECMO machines, organ transplantation laws, fMRI scanners and ethics committees. The border between life and death did not move; we just started to see how fuzzy it always was.
Underneath the drama there are very boring facts: cells need oxygen, neurons … Read the rest
Content 16+ Imagine, if you will, a car speeding down the highway of life. It has all the trappings of modern engineering: a glossy finish, touch-screen dashboard, and perhaps a neuro-integrated GPS that pings you with every poor decision you’ve ever made. Now imagine the driver—no, not some sleek AI or hyper-rational cyborg. Instead, it’s a monkey. A jittery, banana-hungry, dopamine-fueled primate with the emotional restraint of a toddler in … Read the rest
