DJ Strouse

The following post was inspired by a NY Times article shared with me by Lena Enck, a recent USC graduate spending at least the next year doing good on the Indian subcontinent. It is adapted from an email response. I highly encourage you to read the above article first, one, because the following [...]

This blog post on the effects of “growing up connected” on child development sent chills through my body: not those of fear but of realization.
I’ve focused so hard on how new technologies provide opportunities (implicitly to humans thinking roughly the same way they have for millenia) that I hadn’t thought much about the way these [...]

My Goodreads Review
rating: 4 of 5 stars

A bold book from my favorite philosopher-scientist that aims to build a framework for tackling perhaps the hardest question humanity has ever asked – “what is this conscious experience?” As in his other books, Dennett is adept at weaving the “soft” thought experiments of philosophy with the [...]