Both the early Syriac poets and the field of cognitive science hold fast to a unity of body and mind, and both understand metaphor to be essential to our conceptual understanding. It may seem odd ...

A good metaphor for ambiguity is binocular vision. When you look at things out of one eye, the world seems flat and two-dimensional. ... Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics, ...

From living in a simulation, to just being really far away, here are our favorite theories as to why we haven’t come in contact with aliens yet.