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He regarded everything from the ‘genius’ of JS Bach to religious ideas as the product of Darwinian evolutionary processes

I asked a few weird fiction writers and editors to send me one question each for Thomas Ligotti. Here's the result! With questions by Jeffrey Ford, Michael Cisco, John Langan, S.P. Miskowski, Ramsey Campbell, Joe Pulver, and others.

His new autobiography isn’t just about a thinker’s life—but about the thinking life itself

The veteran US philosopher renowned for his theories of consciousness is an intriguing figure but too prone to ‘professorial preening’

What would Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, a very friendly robot, plus a bevy of scientists, mystics, and wannabe scholars do at a fancy resort in Arizona? Perhaps real harm to the field of consciousness studies, for one thing.

<strong>Editorial:</strong> Hyping AI’s utility is part of a commercial push to get users to cede authority to machines

The travel writer and novelist on reading The Second Sex as an 18-year-old, discovering Proust, and the brilliance of Byron

Steven Pinker, Mary Beard, Rebecca Solnit and others reveal the books that made them see the world differently

In the X-Men comic book series, the wheelchair-bound leader of the band of super-powered mutants, Professor Charles Xavier, uses a device called Cerebro to communicate with his team and potentially all mutants across the globe. Using his powers of telepathy, Professor X can go through Cerebro to connect directly into

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