Amy Monsky is the president of Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, an organization of atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers centered in the Charleston area along the coast of South Carolina. We spoke to her recently... Read More

Clay Farris Naff: You say you want to create a machine that feels. Yet, surely, some machines already possess awareness. (A thermostat is aware of the ambient temperature, for example.) What’s the difference between awareness... Read More

Clay Farris Naff: No one has yet produced a testable and accepted theory of consciousness. Yet, you and others seem confident that a working copy of the contents of a human brain could, in principle,... Read More

2011 Humanist of the Year Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book, Plato at the Googleplex, is audacious in conception, intellectually stimulating, and an altogether fascinating read. In it, Goldstein ushers the ancient philosopher into the twenty-first... Read More

Jason Eden is a contributor to TheHumanist.com and the author of a book about his journey from Christian minister to atheist. Given the recent Pew survey that revealed atheists are the "most unwanted future relative"... Read More

As a restless teenager, the Swedish-born physicist Max Tegmark wrote code for a shareware game that made him enough pocket change to travel the world. As a brash young theorist he made the cover of... Read More

As a restless teenager, the Swedish-born physicist Max Tegmark wrote code for a shareware game that made him enough pocket change to travel the world. As a brash young theorist he made the cover of... Read More