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David Chalmers Thinks We May Be Living in a Simulation (and He’s OK With It)

The Next Big Idea

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Are Our Smartphones Turning Us Into Idiots?

We're quite literally offloading parts of our brains onto these devices. We feel that when we misplace them, which some of us do more frequently than others. But it's just going to catch on even more in the future. I'd like to think that it could buy encoding so much automatically in our devices - giving us access to so much more information and so much more directly. That leaves more room for us to do the creative part,. The conscious part is still at the center of all this.

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