The Origin of Feeling

Your feelings and the emotions they inspire are constructed by your brain. But the circuitry allows you to make changes. You can gain mastery of your emotional reality.

Ideas, Learning, ScienceStephen HeapApril 7, 2019emotion, neuro, learning, simulation Comments

Society of the Spectacle in One Page

The Society of the Spectacle is an intimidating treatise on media and society. Here is my attempt to condense it to one page.

Ideas, Learning, Popular CultureStephen HeapFebruary 8, 2019philosphy, learning, ideas, culture Comment

Io Hot-Take: Life and Death in the Mumblecore Apocalypse

It is inevitable that we will face massive and unpredictable change in the coming century. We need to update our understanding of the world if we are to make the best of it, and this movie is a flawed but important attempt to fill that gap.