Sublime

Turns out Chalmers went on to become a leading disrupter in consciousness research.

A few years ago, a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, announced that he had produced the world’s first CRISPR-edited humans—twin baby girls. According to He, the girls’ genes had been tweaked to confer resistance to HIV, though whether this is actually the case remains unclear. Shortly after he made the announcement, He was placed under house arrest in

Steve Peterson, a member of a Colorado higher-consciousness cult called Divine Madness, which seeks nirvana through sex parties, extreme trail running, and affordable housecleaning.

the human organism is always being influenced by society and culture, by forces of history, habitat and the activity of the microbiome. These long body forces are so powerful and pervasive that we might well come to the conclusion that our impression of personal free will is nothing more than a neurological magic trick.

In short, after a lifetime of agonizing about what time is, thanks to running I was liberated from this inescapable, crudely Proustian obsession and quickly turned to another obsession. I wanted to know what’s inside time.

Are these higher dimensions merely mathematical tools, or do they actually exist all around us, just outside our reach? In her recent book, Warped Passages, physicist Lisa Randall explains why a growing number of her colleagues are coming to believe that this may indeed be the case.7