I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy, and makes itself seen, heard, smelled, tasted, felt - "perceived." But a closer examination of the data suggests this is incorrect. The brain is properly thought of as a mostly closed system that runs on its own internally generated activity.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.