Many people want to experience a sense of meaning as part of living a fulfilling life. But what brings us meaning, as opposed to just happiness? A new study aimed to help answer this question. In the ...

How often do we stop to think about the meaning of life? If you’re like me, probably not much. Even though I may feel a vague sense of anxiety around how my life is unfolding and the inevitability of ...

Psychological and philosophical studies have long shown that a person's subjective moods and emotions have a significant impact on how they experience the "meaning in life." Philosopher Matthew ...

Editor’s Note: This piece was adapted from Arthur Brooks’s remarks at the Irving Kristol Award & Annual Dinner, hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, on November 15, 2022. It isn’t disconnected ...

Some holiday words have more than one meaning, like "trim" the tree. And some meanings have more than one word, like "gift" ...

With analysts and vendors using "technical debt" and other phrases to mean whatever they want them to mean, someone has to defend the language. IT loves buzzwords. But it is now becoming frightfully ...

The map is not the territory, but the hallucination is not the map. –adapted from Alfred Korzybski Artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting the conditions under which our cognition forms meaning.

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

A team of amateurs recently came together in an online collaboration called the Busy Beaver Challenge to pin down the value of BB(5), the fifth “busy beaver” number — a notoriously difficult problem ...