New Concepts

Maps can distort our views of the world. Thongchai Winichakul, in Siam Mapped, wrote that the map of Thailand became a metasign—it acquired meanings that

Many of AI’s leaders are concerned about aligning AI’s goals with what will benefit humanity, but its LLMs have a narrow view of us. Humanity’s

Just after the beginning of the 20th century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson defined two kinds of time. One is objectively measured. We identify a

What is a circle? Many Westerners have been trained to think of it as an abstract geometric shape with a circumference of 2πr and the

Language is much more than what the cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker called words and rules. For example, aspects of Sanskrit helped encourage ancient