Commentary
Essays on the papers in the archive and the questions they still raise — read slowly, written occasionally.
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Cognitive Closure: Why the Mind-Body Problem Might Be Beyond Us
A reader's guide to Colin McGinn's mysterianism — the claim that the very faculties we'd need to solve the hard problem of consciousness may be the ones that close it off — and why the argument is more interesting than its pessimism suggests.
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Binding the World Together: Feature-Integration Theory, Revisited
Treisman & Gelade's 1980 theory of attention named a problem we still haven't fully solved: how separate features become a single perceived object. A look at what the theory got right, and why “binding” matters far beyond psychology.