From metaphors for our behavior to demonstrations of our superior status, we use animals to help define ourselves.

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

When I’m writing a metaphor, I always want to compare the natural world to something manmade, and vice versa. Diamonds on ...

Warren Buffett's snowball metaphor explains how small, consistent efforts compound into extraordinary results over time in investing and in life.

Artificial intelligence (AI) safety has turned into a constant cat-and-mouse game. As developers add guardrails to block ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...