# Edge: Annual Questions, Third Culture, and the Frontier of the Thinkable > [!summary] The shortest account > [[wiki/Edge.org|Edge.org]] created an unusually concentrated public conversation among scientists, engineers, philosophers, artists, writers, and institutional builders. This collection preserves its Annual Question archive locally, routes the responses into the knowledge graph, and promotes a smaller set of exact, self-contained passages into Simple Reminders. The selection is not organized around pessimism. It follows consciousness, memory, intelligence, substrate, evolution, scientific imagination, civilizational possibility, and the point where speculative questions begin to acquire engineering interfaces. > [!important] Provenance boundary > The Edge response pages remain the authoritative publication objects. The local research files are complete cohort indexes containing one exact representative extract per response row, not republications of every full essay. A reminder is promoted only after its passage can stand alone without changing the contributor's epistemic posture. ## How to read this collection 1. Begin with [[wiki/Edge.org|Edge.org]] and [[wiki/John Brockman|John Brockman]] for the institution and its [[wiki/Third Culture|third-culture]] program. 2. Use the yearly research documents below when you need complete cohort coverage and direct response provenance. 3. Use the promoted-reminder sections for the current poster-ready passages. 4. Use [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] to browse Edge quotations alongside the larger multi-source Reminder corpus and its verification queue. 5. Continue into [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/MARS|MARS]] when an Edge proposition enters the corpus's technical and civilizational architecture. 6. Read [[collections/Whole Earth|Whole Earth]] as the pending predecessor project: access to tools, whole-systems literacy, and the catalog interface before Edge's networked access to minds. ## Complete Annual Question research archive The archive contains 22 collection pages from 1998 through 2018 because 2001 contains both *What Now?* and *What Questions Have Disappeared?* The 2015 collection was already present; the remaining 21 were added in this pass. Together the local indexes account for 3,218 response objects. - [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018]] - [[research/Edge 2017 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2017]] - [[research/Edge 2016 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2016]] - [[research/Edge 2015 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2015]] - [[research/Edge 2014 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2014]] - [[research/Edge 2013 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2013]] - [[research/Edge 2012 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2012]] - [[research/Edge 2011 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2011]] - [[research/Edge 2010 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2010]] - [[research/Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2009]] - [[research/Edge 2008 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2008]] - [[research/Edge 2007 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2007]] - [[research/Edge 2006 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2006]] - [[research/Edge 2005 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2005]] - [[research/Edge 2004 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2004]] - [[research/Edge 2003 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2003]] - [[research/Edge 2002 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2002]] - [[research/Edge 2001 Full Quotation Curation - Disappeared Questions|Edge 2001 - Disappeared Questions]] - [[research/Edge 2001 Full Quotation Curation - What Now|Edge 2001 - What Now]] - [[research/Edge 2000 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2000]] - [[research/Edge 1999 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 1999]] - [[research/Edge 1998 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 1998]] ## Promotion ledger and acquisition queue Every response object in the 22 research documents now carries a bulleted `Reminder status` immediately beneath its source line. A promoted entry links directly to its canonical reminder; an unpromoted entry says `Not yet promoted`, making each annual document both a provenance index and a working acquisition queue. Across the archive, **817 indexed entries are marked promoted and collectively link to 823 canonical reminder files**. Canonical reminders now outnumber promoted response objects because several source responses yield distinct companion passages; the older duplicated Edge 2014 index rows still converge on one Lisa Feldman Barrett reminder. The remaining **2,401 indexed entries** are explicitly marked not yet promoted. This count also corrects a pre-existing one-row undercount in the 2002 coverage ledger. - [[research/Edge Annual Question Promotion Coverage - 2026-09-11.jsonl|Edge Annual Question Promotion Coverage]] — year-by-year counts of archived entries, promoted archive entries, canonical reminder files, and entries still awaiting promotion. ## Current promoted reminder corpus The Edge-sourced reminder corpus currently contains **823 verified quotations**. The archive now combines the complete substantive 2015 cohort, the earlier passage and evolutionary-transition batches, 85 report-prioritized promotions, the 100 source-checked decisions below, 20 later Edge reminders from mixed and exceptional passes, 20 additional 2018 questions, three September 15 source-backed batches, and the 57 high-priority promotions completed September 23. The 2015 research file remains the complete promotion ledger for that cohort: - [[research/Edge 2015 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2015 — What Do You Think About Machines That Think?]] ### September 15 source-backed additions - [[reminders/Human Animality/Can Science Reduce Sexual Conflict by David M. Buss|Can Science Reduce Sexual Conflict by David M. Buss]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Why Are We Kind to Strangers With Nothing to Gain by Paul Bloom|Why Are We Kind to Strangers With Nothing to Gain by Paul Bloom]] - [[reminders/Information/Can Systems Prevent Denial of Scientific Knowledge by Jennifer Jacquet|Can Systems Prevent Denial of Scientific Knowledge by Jennifer Jacquet]] - [[reminders/Civilization/What Can Restore Public Trust in Science by Irene Pepperberg|What Can Restore Public Trust in Science by Irene Pepperberg]] - [[reminders/Evolution/What Governs the Evolution of Complex Systems by John C. Mather|What Governs the Evolution of Complex Systems by John C. Mather]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Is Biology Fundamentally Different From Physics by Ashvin Chhabra|Is Biology Fundamentally Different From Physics by Ashvin Chhabra]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Can Organizations Bring Out the Best in People by Olivier Sibony|Can Organizations Bring Out the Best in People by Olivier Sibony]] - [[reminders/Information/Why Does Knowledge Feel Less Secure to Educated People by Gloria Origgi|Why Does Knowledge Feel Less Secure to Educated People by Gloria Origgi]] - [[reminders/Information/Can Social Science Predict Like Natural Science by Robert Kurzban|Can Social Science Predict Like Natural Science by Robert Kurzban]] - [[reminders/Information/How Can People Ask the Right Question First by Ziyad Marar|How Can People Ask the Right Question First by Ziyad Marar]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Why Do Most People Avoid Clinical Depression by Robert Sapolsky|Why Do Most People Avoid Clinical Depression by Robert Sapolsky]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Will Another Culture Follow the Third Culture by Howard Gardner|Will Another Culture Follow the Third Culture by Howard Gardner]] - [[reminders/Information/Must Science Keep Peeling Layers of Reality by Lawrence M. Krauss|Must Science Keep Peeling Layers of Reality by Lawrence M. Krauss]] - [[reminders/Information/Can Discovery Ever Be Complete in Natural Science by Mary Catherine Bateson|Can Discovery Ever Be Complete in Natural Science by Mary Catherine Bateson]] - [[reminders/Personhood/How Can We Value Human Lives Without Becoming Inhuman by Chris Anderson|How Can We Value Human Lives Without Becoming Inhuman by Chris Anderson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Can We Hear the Complete History of Life by Julia Clarke|Can We Hear the Complete History of Life by Julia Clarke]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Should Science or Politics Change for Evidence-Based Policy by Luca De Biase|Should Science or Politics Change for Evidence-Based Policy by Luca De Biase]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Analogy and Combinatorics Build Human Intelligence by Steven Pinker|Analogy and Combinatorics Build Human Intelligence by Steven Pinker]] - [[reminders/Deception/Deceit and Self-Deception May Shape Human Disasters by Robert Trivers|Deceit and Self-Deception May Shape Human Disasters by Robert Trivers]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Brain Programming Matters More Than Brain Hardware for Cognition by Nicholas Humphrey|Brain Programming Matters More Than Brain Hardware for Cognition by Nicholas Humphrey]] ### September 15 complete-statement batch - [[reminders/Information/Scientific Labels Can Become Quack Cures by Charles Seife|Scientific Labels Can Become Quack Cures by Charles Seife]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Genes and Experience Shape the Mind by David Lykken|Genes and Experience Shape the Mind by David Lykken]] - [[reminders/Information/Mind Body and Biology Have No Clear Boundaries by Andy Clark|Mind Body and Biology Have No Clear Boundaries by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Reproduction Drives Evolutionary Selection by David M. Buss|Reproduction Drives Evolutionary Selection by David M. Buss]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Human Biological Differences Do Not Produce Races by Dan Sperber|Human Biological Differences Do Not Produce Races by Dan Sperber]] - [[reminders/Information/Human Biology Shapes Scientific Knowledge by Arnold Trehub|Human Biology Shapes Scientific Knowledge by Arnold Trehub]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Human-Centered Views of Life Are Unwarranted by J. Craig Venter|Human-Centered Views of Life Are Unwarranted by J. Craig Venter]] - [[reminders/Connectomics/Synapses Are Units of Neural Computation by Terrence J. Sejnowski|Synapses Are Units of Neural Computation by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] - [[reminders/Information/The Brain Predicts Its Sensory World by Andy Clark|The Brain Predicts Its Sensory World by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Shared Biology Coexists With Diverse Human Cultures by Nicolas Baumard|Shared Biology Coexists With Diverse Human Cultures by Nicolas Baumard]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Separate-Origin Life Could Reveal Another Biology by Robert Shapiro|Separate-Origin Life Could Reveal Another Biology by Robert Shapiro]] - [[reminders/Information/Neuroscientists May Never Read Thoughts Without Consent by John Horgan|Neuroscientists May Never Read Thoughts Without Consent by John Horgan]] - [[reminders/Information/New Computing Technology Reaches Game Machines First by John Markoff|New Computing Technology Reaches Game Machines First by John Markoff]] - [[reminders/Information/The Brain Reflects What It Creates by Todd Siler|The Brain Reflects What It Creates by Todd Siler]] - [[reminders/Information/Scientific Method Questions Nature Through Experiment by Joseph Traub|Scientific Method Questions Nature Through Experiment by Joseph Traub]] - [[reminders/Information/Every Mind-Clearing System Creates Some Garbage by John Horgan|Every Mind-Clearing System Creates Some Garbage by John Horgan]] - [[reminders/Information/Stars and Neurons Need Different Theories by Gino Segre|Stars and Neurons Need Different Theories by Gino Segre]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Major Evolutionary Steps Arise More Than Once by Martin Nowak|Major Evolutionary Steps Arise More Than Once by Martin Nowak]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Progress Makes Me Optimistic About the Future by Kevin Kelly|Progress Makes Me Optimistic About the Future by Kevin Kelly]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Life Beyond Our Solar System Would Transform Humanity by J. Craig Venter|Life Beyond Our Solar System Would Transform Humanity by J. Craig Venter]] ### September 15 third source-backed batch - [[reminders/Evolution/Failure to Change a Mind Does Not Prove It Is Hard-Wired by Steven R. Quartz|Failure to Change a Mind Does Not Prove It Is Hard-Wired by Steven R. Quartz]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Genes and Environments Work Together to Build Life by Helena Cronin|Genes and Environments Work Together to Build Life by Helena Cronin]] - [[reminders/Information/Sometimes Less Information Improves Prediction by Gerd Gigerenzer|Sometimes Less Information Improves Prediction by Gerd Gigerenzer]] - [[reminders/Information/Preconceptions Can Blind Reporters to Reality by Steven Levy|Preconceptions Can Blind Reporters to Reality by Steven Levy]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Adjacent Possible Contains New Molecules by Stuart A. Kauffman|The Adjacent Possible Contains New Molecules by Stuart A. Kauffman]] - [[reminders/Information/Facts and Reason Can Be Hard to Defend by Andrian Kreye|Facts and Reason Can Be Hard to Defend by Andrian Kreye]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Remembering History Can Sustain Catastrophic Patterns by Scott Atran|Remembering History Can Sustain Catastrophic Patterns by Scott Atran]] - [[reminders/Information/Yesterday’s Impossibilities Can Become Everyday Life by Clifford Pickover|Yesterday’s Impossibilities Can Become Everyday Life by Clifford Pickover]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Blindsight Shows Vision Without Awareness by Ernst Pöppel|Blindsight Shows Vision Without Awareness by Ernst Pöppel]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Common Sense Can Defend Itself Against Science by David Berreby|Common Sense Can Defend Itself Against Science by David Berreby]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Animal Feelings Could Change How We Treat Animals by April Gornik|Animal Feelings Could Change How We Treat Animals by April Gornik]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Genes Are Recipes Rather Than Blueprints by Robert Provine|Genes Are Recipes Rather Than Blueprints by Robert Provine]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Humans Are a Planetary Force by Jennifer Jacquet|Humans Are a Planetary Force by Jennifer Jacquet]] - [[reminders/Information/Printing Created a Growing Ecosystem of Knowledge by John Tooby|Printing Created a Growing Ecosystem of Knowledge by John Tooby]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Tinkering Helps Children Develop a Scientific Style by Sherry Turkle|Tinkering Helps Children Develop a Scientific Style by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Education Recycles Brain Networks for New Uses by Stanislas Dehaene|Education Recycles Brain Networks for New Uses by Stanislas Dehaene]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Social and Emotional Circuits Mature Into the Twenties by Daniel Goleman|Social and Emotional Circuits Mature Into the Twenties by Daniel Goleman]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Cooperation May Grow With Better Discrimination by Robert Trivers|Cooperation May Grow With Better Discrimination by Robert Trivers]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/We Can Be Cooperative Within Groups and Tribal Between Them by Michael Shermer|We Can Be Cooperative Within Groups and Tribal Between Them by Michael Shermer]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Emotions Are Proactive as Well as Reactive by Brian Knutson|Emotions Are Proactive as Well as Reactive by Brian Knutson]] ### Fifty passage-sized additions #### 2017 - [[reminders/AI Control/Transfer Learning Could Democratize Personalized Machine Intelligence by Peter Lee|Transfer Learning Could Democratize Personalized Machine Intelligence by Peter Lee]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness May Be Substrate-Independent Twice Over by Max Tegmark|Consciousness May Be Substrate-Independent Twice Over by Max Tegmark]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Mind and Neurons May Be Complementary Properties of One System by Michael Gazzaniga|Mind and Neurons May Be Complementary Properties of One System by Michael Gazzaniga]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Intelligent Machines Are the Next Replicators by Susan Blackmore|Intelligent Machines Are the Next Replicators by Susan Blackmore]] - [[reminders/Identity/Future Selves Can Be Engineered to Change Present Behavior by Brian Knutson|Future Selves Can Be Engineered to Change Present Behavior by Brian Knutson]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Brain Implants Will Change What Our Brains Are Becoming by Juan Enriquez|Brain Implants Will Change What Our Brains Are Becoming by Juan Enriquez]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Cracking the Neural Code Could Give Us Power Over Mind by John Horgan|Cracking the Neural Code Could Give Us Power Over Mind by John Horgan]] - [[reminders/Preservation/Genetic Rescue Can Recover Lost Biological Futures by Stewart Brand|Genetic Rescue Can Recover Lost Biological Futures by Stewart Brand]] #### 2016 - [[reminders/Evolution/Gene Editing May Transform Our Species Faster Than We Can Govern It by Randolph Nesse|Gene Editing May Transform Our Species Faster Than We Can Govern It by Randolph Nesse]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Humanity Has Created a Third Evolutionary Tree of Life by Juan Enriquez|Humanity Has Created a Third Evolutionary Tree of Life by Juan Enriquez]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Neurotechnologies Will Match the Complexity of the Brain by Terrence J. Sejnowski|Neurotechnologies Will Match the Complexity of the Brain by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Recording and Recreating Neurons Could Change Who We Are by Christian Keysers|Recording and Recreating Neurons Could Change Who We Are by Christian Keysers]] #### 2014 - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Brain Does Not Separate Cognition From Emotion by Lisa Feldman Barrett|The Brain Does Not Separate Cognition From Emotion by Lisa Feldman Barrett]] - [[reminders/Memory/Long-Term Memories Become Fragile When Recalled by Todd C. Sacktor|Long-Term Memories Become Fragile When Recalled by Todd C. Sacktor]] #### 2012 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness Unifies What the Brain Keeps Distributed by Vilayanur Ramachandran|Consciousness Unifies What the Brain Keeps Distributed by Vilayanur Ramachandran]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Software Alone Cannot Make a Mind by David Gelernter|Software Alone Cannot Make a Mind by David Gelernter]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Unconscious Has the Greatest Psychic Gravity by Joel Gold|The Unconscious Has the Greatest Psychic Gravity by Joel Gold]] - [[reminders/Digital Life/Digital Worlds Accelerate the Evolution of Virtual Life by Juan Enriquez|Digital Worlds Accelerate the Evolution of Virtual Life by Juan Enriquez]] - [[reminders/Information/Information Resolves Uncertainty Across Every Medium by Andrew Lih|Information Resolves Uncertainty Across Every Medium by Andrew Lih]] - [[reminders/Simulation/Dreams Reveal the Brain as a Reality-Making Machine by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran|Dreams Reveal the Brain as a Reality-Making Machine by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran]] #### 2011 - [[reminders/Civilization/Civilization Is a Network No Individual Understands by Matt Ridley|Civilization Is a Network No Individual Understands by Matt Ridley]] - [[reminders/Deep Time/Humans Are Not the Terminal Branch of Evolution by Martin Rees|Humans Are Not the Terminal Branch of Evolution by Martin Rees]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Technology Came Before Humanity by Timothy Taylor|Technology Came Before Humanity by Timothy Taylor]] - [[reminders/Identity/The Self May Be a Transparent Model by Thomas Metzinger|The Self May Be a Transparent Model by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Information/Hidden Layers Create New Emergent Concepts by Frank Wilczek|Hidden Layers Create New Emergent Concepts by Frank Wilczek]] - [[reminders/Information/Uncertainty Is a Feature of Discovery by Neil Gershenfeld|Uncertainty Is a Feature of Discovery by Neil Gershenfeld]] #### 2010 - [[reminders/Digital Life/Thought Can Extend Beyond Brain Place and Time by Peter Schwartz|Thought Can Extend Beyond Brain Place and Time by Peter Schwartz]] - [[reminders/Memory/Each Use of a Memory Changes the Memory by Joseph LeDoux|Each Use of a Memory Changes the Memory by Joseph LeDoux]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Human Enhancement Has Always Included External Tools by Nicholas A. Christakis|Human Enhancement Has Always Included External Tools by Nicholas A. Christakis]] - [[reminders/Simulation/The Self May Be a Virtual Machine by David Gelernter|The Self May Be a Virtual Machine by David Gelernter]] #### 2009 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Synthetic Consciousness Could Surpass Finding Alien Life by Corey S. Powell|Synthetic Consciousness Could Surpass Finding Alien Life by Corey S. Powell]] - [[reminders/Digital Life/Digital Life May Travel Between the Stars by George Dyson|Digital Life May Travel Between the Stars by George Dyson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Life Can Be Reimplemented in Engineered Materials by Neil Gershenfeld|Life Can Be Reimplemented in Engineered Materials by Neil Gershenfeld]] - [[reminders/Evolution/We Can Write New Software of Life by J. Craig Venter|We Can Write New Software of Life by J. Craig Venter]] - [[reminders/Information/The World Mind Needs Knowledge Humans and Machines Can Share by W. Daniel Hillis|The World Mind Needs Knowledge Humans and Machines Can Share by W. Daniel Hillis]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Can Inherit Everything Their Predecessors Knew by Nick Bostrom|Machines Can Inherit Everything Their Predecessors Knew by Nick Bostrom]] - [[reminders/Mind Upload/Brain Copies May Arrive Before We Understand the Brain by David M. Eagleman|Brain Copies May Arrive Before We Understand the Brain by David M. Eagleman]] - [[reminders/Mind Upload/Formerly Human Minds May Become Entirely Artificial by Gregory Paul|Formerly Human Minds May Become Entirely Artificial by Gregory Paul]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/A Brain on Earth Could Inhabit a Robot on Mars by Miguel Nicolelis|A Brain on Earth Could Inhabit a Robot on Mars by Miguel Nicolelis]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Restored Brain Plasticity Could Make Learning Effortless by Leo M. Chalupa|Restored Brain Plasticity Could Make Learning Effortless by Leo M. Chalupa]] #### 2007 - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Human Intelligence Has Always Coevolved With Its Tools by Andy Clark|Human Intelligence Has Always Coevolved With Its Tools by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/Mind Upload/Machine Minds Could Edit Merge and Accelerate Themselves by Marvin Minsky|Machine Minds Could Edit Merge and Accelerate Themselves by Marvin Minsky]] #### 2006 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Brains Cannot Become Minds Without Bodies by Alun Anderson|Brains Cannot Become Minds Without Bodies by Alun Anderson]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Every Object May Have a Mind by Rudy Rucker|Every Object May Have a Mind by Rudy Rucker]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Brain Is a Machine Built From Genetic Information by Gary Marcus|The Brain Is a Machine Built From Genetic Information by Gary Marcus]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Information Technology Can Compress Billions of Years Into Decades by Ray Kurzweil|Information Technology Can Compress Billions of Years Into Decades by Ray Kurzweil]] - [[reminders/Identity/Human Experience May Become Beautifully Strange by Jaron Lanier|Human Experience May Become Beautifully Strange by Jaron Lanier]] - [[reminders/Identity/The Brain Goes Beyond Nature Through External Memory by Timothy Taylor|The Brain Goes Beyond Nature Through External Memory by Timothy Taylor]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Brain Interfaces May Divide Humanity Into High-Tech and Low-Tech Minds by Stanislas Dehaene|Brain Interfaces May Divide Humanity Into High-Tech and Low-Tech Minds by Stanislas Dehaene]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Solving the Neural Code Could Give Us Direct Control Over Ourselves by John Horgan|Solving the Neural Code Could Give Us Direct Control Over Ourselves by John Horgan]] <!-- BEGIN EDGE EVOLUTION AND MACHINE TRANSITION REMINDERS 2026-09-11 --> ## Evolution, Selection, and Machine Transition Additions This 200-passage promotion deepens the Edge router around evolution, Darwinian selection, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, species transition, extinction risk, neural interfaces, human-machine convergence, and machine succession. Each entry below points to an exact Edge passage with a direct response link and reciprocal wiki placement. ### Evolution — 93 - [[reminders/Evolution/99% of Species, Including All Other Hominids, Have Gone Extinct by Juan Enriquez|99% of Species, Including All Other Hominids, Have Gone Extinct by Juan Enriquez]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Abstract Thought Emerged After Millions of Years of Brain Expansion by Keith Devlin|Abstract Thought Emerged After Millions of Years of Brain Expansion by Keith Devlin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Adult Minds Have Both Evolutionary and Personal Histories by Paul Bloom|Adult Minds Have Both Evolutionary and Personal Histories by Paul Bloom]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Biologists Long Distinguished Between K Species and R Species by Alison Gopnik|Biologists Long Distinguished Between K Species and R Species by Alison Gopnik]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Can Science Answer Moral and Ethical Questions by Michael Shermer|Can Science Answer Moral and Ethical Questions by Michael Shermer]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Children Inherit Traditions as Readily as Genes by Peter Richerson|Children Inherit Traditions as Readily as Genes by Peter Richerson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Cooking May Have Created Homo Erectus by Richard Wrangham|Cooking May Have Created Homo Erectus by Richard Wrangham]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Cultural Evolution Can Outrun Organic Evolution by David M. Buss|Cultural Evolution Can Outrun Organic Evolution by David M. Buss]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Cultural Evolution Must Explain Religious Diversification by Ara Norenzayan|Cultural Evolution Must Explain Religious Diversification by Ara Norenzayan]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Cultural Systems Evolve by Heritable Variation by Kirsten Bomblies|Cultural Systems Evolve by Heritable Variation by Kirsten Bomblies]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwin Removed Purpose from Biology by Denis Dutton|Darwin Removed Purpose from Biology by Denis Dutton]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwin and Einstein May Illuminate Each Other by Lee Smolin|Darwin and Einstein May Illuminate Each Other by Lee Smolin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwin's Algorithm Has Extraordinary Destructive Force by Thomas Metzinger|Darwin's Algorithm Has Extraordinary Destructive Force by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwin's Explanation of the Origin of Coral Reefs by Christopher Sykes|Darwin's Explanation of the Origin of Coral Reefs by Christopher Sykes]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwin's Greatest Tool Was Close Observation by Ursula Martin|Darwin's Greatest Tool Was Close Observation by Ursula Martin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwin's Theory Outshines Every Other Biological Invention by Christopher G. Langton|Darwin's Theory Outshines Every Other Biological Invention by Christopher G. Langton]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwinian Selection Shaped Human Cognitive Dispositions by Dan Sperber|Darwinian Selection Shaped Human Cognitive Dispositions by Dan Sperber]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Darwinian Thinking Is a Compass Through Complexity by Paul W. Ewald|Darwinian Thinking Is a Compass Through Complexity by Paul W. Ewald]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Design Cannot Precede Evolution by Richard Dawkins|Design Cannot Precede Evolution by Richard Dawkins]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Each Evolutionary Stage Builds Tools for the Next by Ray Kurzweil|Each Evolutionary Stage Builds Tools for the Next by Ray Kurzweil]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Edge Explores the Frontiers of Biology Mind and Physics by John Brockman|Edge Explores the Frontiers of Biology Mind and Physics by John Brockman]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Every Species Needs an Idea That Works by Marcel Kinsbourne|Every Species Needs an Idea That Works by Marcel Kinsbourne]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution Builds Complex Design Without Purpose by Susan Blackmore|Evolution Builds Complex Design Without Purpose by Susan Blackmore]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution May Extend Beyond Biology by Rupert Sheldrake|Evolution May Extend Beyond Biology by Rupert Sheldrake]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution Needed Deep Time to Explain New Species by Alun Anderson|Evolution Needed Deep Time to Explain New Species by Alun Anderson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution Prepared Us for Sudden Crises Not Slow Decline by Alun Anderson|Evolution Prepared Us for Sudden Crises Not Slow Decline by Alun Anderson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution Warns Against Premature Optimization by Kevin Kelly|Evolution Warns Against Premature Optimization by Kevin Kelly]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution by Selection Explains What We Are and Where We Are Going by Paul W. Ewald|Evolution by Selection Explains What We Are and Where We Are Going by Paul W. Ewald]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolutionary Algorithms Can Become Trapped in Mediocre Stable States by Jordan Pollack|Evolutionary Algorithms Can Become Trapped in Mediocre Stable States by Jordan Pollack]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolutionary Genetics Explains the Conflicts of Human Social Life by Steven Pinker|Evolutionary Genetics Explains the Conflicts of Human Social Life by Steven Pinker]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolutionary Psychology Points Toward Mosaic AI by John Tooby|Evolutionary Psychology Points Toward Mosaic AI by John Tooby]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolutionary Stable Strategies by S. Abbas Raza|Evolutionary Stable Strategies by S. Abbas Raza]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Exaptation Is Central to the Evolution of Mind and Brain by W. Tecumseh Fitch|Exaptation Is Central to the Evolution of Mind and Brain by W. Tecumseh Fitch]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Fitness Landscapes Explain Evolution and Innovation by Stewart Brand|Fitness Landscapes Explain Evolution and Innovation by Stewart Brand]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Hairlessness Helped Make Humans a New Kind of Primate by Judith Rich Harris|Hairlessness Helped Make Humans a New Kind of Primate by Judith Rich Harris]] - [[reminders/Evolution/How Apparent Finality Can Emerge by Carlo Rovelli|How Apparent Finality Can Emerge by Carlo Rovelli]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Human Evolution May Be Driven by Replacement and Random Extinction by Milford H. Wolpoff|Human Evolution May Be Driven by Replacement and Random Extinction by Milford H. Wolpoff]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Human Evolution May Have Accelerated When We Took Control of the Environment by Linda S. Gottfredson|Human Evolution May Have Accelerated When We Took Control of the Environment by Linda S. Gottfredson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Humanity Must Keep Changing to Preserve What It Has by Timothy Taylor|Humanity Must Keep Changing to Preserve What It Has by Timothy Taylor]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Humans Are Biologically Exceptional by Michael McCullough|Humans Are Biologically Exceptional by Michael McCullough]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Intelligence Could Be Evolution's Most Dangerous Experiment by Ernst Pöppel|Intelligence Could Be Evolution's Most Dangerous Experiment by Ernst Pöppel]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Is Human Nature Innately Good or Evil by Ann Crittenden|Is Human Nature Innately Good or Evil by Ann Crittenden]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Is Idiocracy Looming by Douglas T. Kenrick|Is Idiocracy Looming by Douglas T. Kenrick]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Islands Reveal Evolutionary Laws That Continents Conceal by Stuart Pimm|Islands Reveal Evolutionary Laws That Continents Conceal by Stuart Pimm]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Life Evolves via a Shared Genetic Toolkit by Seirian Sumner|Life Evolves via a Shared Genetic Toolkit by Seirian Sumner]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Microbes Evolve by Sharing Genes Across Lineages by Stewart Brand|Microbes Evolve by Sharing Genes Across Lineages by Stewart Brand]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Mismatch Drives Natural Selection by Daniel Lieberman|Mismatch Drives Natural Selection by Daniel Lieberman]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Molecular Manufacturing Copies Evolution's Bottom-up Construction by Ed Regis|Molecular Manufacturing Copies Evolution's Bottom-up Construction by Ed Regis]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Moral Development Cannot Ignore Natural Selection by Paul Bloom|Moral Development Cannot Ignore Natural Selection by Paul Bloom]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Morality Is Made of Meat by Oliver Scott Curry|Morality Is Made of Meat by Oliver Scott Curry]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Builds Unimaginably Complex Systems by Randolph Nesse|Natural Selection Builds Unimaginably Complex Systems by Randolph Nesse]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Constrains the Trajectories of Human Design by Steven Pinker|Natural Selection Constrains the Trajectories of Human Design by Steven Pinker]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Explains How We Got Here by Keith Devlin|Natural Selection Explains How We Got Here by Keith Devlin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Is Powerful Yet Evolution Can Be Slow by Richard Dawkins|Natural Selection Is Powerful Yet Evolution Can Be Slow by Richard Dawkins]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Is a Tinkerer Not an Engineer by Jonathan B. Losos|Natural Selection Is a Tinkerer Not an Engineer by Jonathan B. Losos]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection May Be the Only Mechanism That Designs Without a Designer by Helena Cronin|Natural Selection May Be the Only Mechanism That Designs Without a Designer by Helena Cronin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection May Preserve Genes Through Kin Selection by Jerry A. Coyne|Natural Selection May Preserve Genes Through Kin Selection by Jerry A. Coyne]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Packed a Star Compass into Bird Genes by Helena Cronin|Natural Selection Packed a Star Compass into Bird Genes by Helena Cronin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Rewards Survival in Context by Keith Devlin|Natural Selection Rewards Survival in Context by Keith Devlin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Sculpts Human Thought Across Generations by Donald D. Hoffman|Natural Selection Sculpts Human Thought Across Generations by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Natural Selection Tunes Perception for Fitness Not Reality by Donald D. Hoffman|Natural Selection Tunes Perception for Fitness Not Reality by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Evolution/New Replicators Start New Evolutionary Processes by Susan Blackmore|New Replicators Start New Evolutionary Processes by Susan Blackmore]] - [[reminders/Evolution/New Species Begin When Populations Evolve Apart by David C. Queller|New Species Begin When Populations Evolve Apart by David C. Queller]] - [[reminders/Evolution/One Evolutionary Process Can Generate Infinite Species by Kurt Gray|One Evolutionary Process Can Generate Infinite Species by Kurt Gray]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Pathogens Span the Entire Tree of Life by Richard Prum|Pathogens Span the Entire Tree of Life by Richard Prum]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Population Thinking Extends from Biology to Cultural Evolution by Dan Sperber|Population Thinking Extends from Biology to Cultural Evolution by Dan Sperber]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Public Understanding Does Not Guarantee Agreement on Science by Lee M. Silver|Public Understanding Does Not Guarantee Agreement on Science by Lee M. Silver]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Relational Robots Can Make Simulation Feel Natural by Sherry Turkle|Relational Robots Can Make Simulation Feel Natural by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Sexual Selection Rewards Mating Success by David M. Buss|Sexual Selection Rewards Mating Success by David M. Buss]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Somatic Mutation Theory of Cancer by Paul Davies|Somatic Mutation Theory of Cancer by Paul Davies]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Survival Will Depend on Mastering Digital and Biological Code by Juan Enriquez|Survival Will Depend on Mastering Digital and Biological Code by Juan Enriquez]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Synthetic Biology Cannot Contain What It Releases into Nature by Seirian Sumner|Synthetic Biology Cannot Contain What It Releases into Nature by Seirian Sumner]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Anthropocebo Effect by Jennifer Jacquet|The Anthropocebo Effect by Jennifer Jacquet]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Computer Metaphor Cannot Explain the Brain by Robert Provine|The Computer Metaphor Cannot Explain the Brain by Robert Provine]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Evolution of Evil by David M. Buss|The Evolution of Evil by David M. Buss]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Idea of a Soul May Be a Product of Cultural Evolution by Timothy Taylor|The Idea of a Soul May Be a Product of Cultural Evolution by Timothy Taylor]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Immortalization of Humanity by Clifford Pickover|The Immortalization of Humanity by Clifford Pickover]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Internet Cannot Rewrite Millions of Years of Brain Evolution by Mark Pagel|The Internet Cannot Rewrite Millions of Years of Brain Evolution by Mark Pagel]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Internet Is a Sexual Recombination Engine for Ideas by Matt Ridley|The Internet Is a Sexual Recombination Engine for Ideas by Matt Ridley]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Is-ought Fallacy of Science and Morality by Michael Shermer|The Is-ought Fallacy of Science and Morality by Michael Shermer]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Laptop Quantum Computer by Donald D. Hoffman|The Laptop Quantum Computer by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Loss of Our Species' Biography by Steven Pinker|The Loss of Our Species' Biography by Steven Pinker]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Most Powerful Carcinogen May Be Entropy by George Johnson|The Most Powerful Carcinogen May Be Entropy by George Johnson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Overdue Demise of Monogamy by Aubrey de Grey|The Overdue Demise of Monogamy by Aubrey de Grey]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Price Equation Can Unite Biological and Cultural Selection by Armand Marie Leroi|The Price Equation Can Unite Biological and Cultural Selection by Armand Marie Leroi]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Purpose of Life Is to Disperse Energy by Scott Sampson|The Purpose of Life Is to Disperse Energy by Scott Sampson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Rise in Genomic Instability by Eric Topol|The Rise in Genomic Instability by Eric Topol]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Successor to Natural Selection in Humans by Bruce Parker|The Successor to Natural Selection in Humans by Bruce Parker]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Understanding Evolution Is Not the Same as Understanding Life's Meaning by Patrick Bateson|Understanding Evolution Is Not the Same as Understanding Life's Meaning by Patrick Bateson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Weapons Technology Powered Human Evolution by Timothy Taylor|Weapons Technology Powered Human Evolution by Timothy Taylor]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Whats Special About Human Language by Gary Marcus|Whats Special About Human Language by Gary Marcus]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Why Is Life So Full of Suffering by Randolph Nesse|Why Is Life So Full of Suffering by Randolph Nesse]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Will Unification Ever Come to a Stop by Anton Zeilinger|Will Unification Ever Come to a Stop by Anton Zeilinger]] ### AI Control — 45 - [[reminders/AI Control/A Self-aware AI Would Immediately Redesign Itself by Frank Wilczek|A Self-aware AI Would Immediately Redesign Itself by Frank Wilczek]] - [[reminders/AI Control/AI Breakthroughs Become Invisible Infrastructure by Lisa Randall|AI Breakthroughs Become Invisible Infrastructure by Lisa Randall]] - [[reminders/AI Control/AI Sensors and Cloud Systems Are Converging into One Feedback Loop by Quentin Hardy|AI Sensors and Cloud Systems Are Converging into One Feedback Loop by Quentin Hardy]] - [[reminders/AI Control/AI Still Needs New Scientific Breakthroughs by Rodney A. Brooks|AI Still Needs New Scientific Breakthroughs by Rodney A. Brooks]] - [[reminders/AI Control/AI and Knowledge Representation Are Converging by Daniel L. Everett|AI and Knowledge Representation Are Converging by Daniel L. Everett]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Artificial Intelligence Returned with a New Set of Questions by Pamela McCorduck|Artificial Intelligence Returned with a New Set of Questions by Pamela McCorduck]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Artificial Intelligence Will Become Artificial Will by Tor Nørretranders|Artificial Intelligence Will Become Artificial Will by Tor Nørretranders]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Better Datasets May Accelerate AI by an Order of Magnitude by Alexander Wissner-Gross|Better Datasets May Accelerate AI by an Order of Magnitude by Alexander Wissner-Gross]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Can Technology Wake up and Come Alive by Robert Aunger|Can Technology Wake up and Come Alive by Robert Aunger]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Can You Have an Artificial Intelligence by Sherry Turkle|Can You Have an Artificial Intelligence by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Competition in the Brain by Daniel C. Dennett|Competition in the Brain by Daniel C. Dennett]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Computational Analysis of Language Requires Understanding Language by Marti Hearst|Computational Analysis of Language Requires Understanding Language by Marti Hearst]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Computer Power Broke AI Away from Mathematical Models by Bart Kosko|Computer Power Broke AI Away from Mathematical Models by Bart Kosko]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Conscious Experience Emerges as the Presence of a World by Thomas Metzinger|Conscious Experience Emerges as the Presence of a World by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Differentiable Programming Is Rewriting Artificial Intelligence by David Dalrymple|Differentiable Programming Is Rewriting Artificial Intelligence by David Dalrymple]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Discovery or Creation of Non-human Intelligence Cures Humankind's Existential Loneliness by Paul Saffo|Discovery or Creation of Non-human Intelligence Cures Humankind's Existential Loneliness by Paul Saffo]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Driverless Cars Will Force Us to Engineer Machine Morality by Daniel Rockmore|Driverless Cars Will Force Us to Engineer Machine Morality by Daniel Rockmore]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Everything Is Computation by Joscha Bach|Everything Is Computation by Joscha Bach]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Human Decision-making Is Already Being Augmented by George Church|Human Decision-making Is Already Being Augmented by George Church]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Human-level AI Remains Farther Away Than Predicted by Roger Schank|Human-level AI Remains Farther Away Than Predicted by Roger Schank]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Machine Learning Turns Data into New Forms of Understanding by Gary Marcus|Machine Learning Turns Data into New Forms of Understanding by Gary Marcus]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Memory Is Stored by Changing Synaptic Strength by Terrence J. Sejnowski|Memory Is Stored by Changing Synaptic Strength by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Neural Networks Fit Curves to Data by Roger Highfield|Neural Networks Fit Curves to Data by Roger Highfield]] - [[reminders/AI Control/No Brain Yet Knows What Brains Do by Roger Schank|No Brain Yet Knows What Brains Do by Roger Schank]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Not Enough Robots by Rodney A. Brooks|Not Enough Robots by Rodney A. Brooks]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Open Water–the Internet of Visible Thought by Peter Gabriel|Open Water–the Internet of Visible Thought by Peter Gabriel]] - [[reminders/AI Control/People Are Morphing into Machines by Rodney A. Brooks|People Are Morphing into Machines by Rodney A. Brooks]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Recombinations of the Near Possible by Yochai Benkler|Recombinations of the Near Possible by Yochai Benkler]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Refusing to Count Is an Invitation to Nonsense by Peter Norvig|Refusing to Count Is an Invitation to Nonsense by Peter Norvig]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Robot Companions Express Our Technological Optimism by Sherry Turkle|Robot Companions Express Our Technological Optimism by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Robots Become Intelligent When People Form Relationships with Them by Sherry Turkle|Robots Become Intelligent When People Form Relationships with Them by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Self-improving AI Could Bootstrap Beyond Imaginable Intelligence by Aubrey de Grey|Self-improving AI Could Bootstrap Beyond Imaginable Intelligence by Aubrey de Grey]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Super-a.i.s Won't Rule the World Unless They Get Culture First by Andy Clark|Super-a.i.s Won't Rule the World Unless They Get Culture First by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Targeted Advertising Foreshadows Personalized AI by Roger Schank|Targeted Advertising Foreshadows Personalized AI by Roger Schank]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Technology Is Advancing Faster Than Wisdom by Max Tegmark|Technology Is Advancing Faster Than Wisdom by Max Tegmark]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Brain Learns Like a Temporal Difference Algorithm by Terrence J. Sejnowski|The Brain Learns Like a Temporal Difference Algorithm by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Cognitive Spectrum May Explain Why AI Cannot Simulate Human Thought by David Gelernter|The Cognitive Spectrum May Explain Why AI Cannot Simulate Human Thought by David Gelernter]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Global Mind Emerged Without a Breakthrough in AI by Rudy Rucker|The Global Mind Emerged Without a Breakthrough in AI by Rudy Rucker]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Input-output Model of Perception and Action by Andy Clark|The Input-output Model of Perception and Action by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Internet Exposes What Our Models Still Miss About Conscious Minds by Lee Smolin|The Internet Exposes What Our Models Still Miss About Conscious Minds by Lee Smolin]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Robotic Moment by Sherry Turkle|The Robotic Moment by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Vulnerability of Headquarters by Tor Nørretranders|The Vulnerability of Headquarters by Tor Nørretranders]] - [[reminders/AI Control/There Aren't Enough Minds to House the Population Explosion of Memes by Daniel C. Dennett|There Aren't Enough Minds to House the Population Explosion of Memes by Daniel C. Dennett]] - [[reminders/AI Control/What Is the Relationship Between Being Alive and Having a Mind by Todd E. Feinberg|What Is the Relationship Between Being Alive and Having a Mind by Todd E. Feinberg]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Why Are Humans Smarter Than Other Animals by Alun Anderson|Why Are Humans Smarter Than Other Animals by Alun Anderson]] ### Civilization — 20 - [[reminders/Civilization/Babies Renew Faith in the Future of Our Species by John Gottman|Babies Renew Faith in the Future of Our Species by John Gottman]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Cooperation May Not Be an Inherent Human Virtue by Gloria Origgi|Cooperation May Not Be an Inherent Human Virtue by Gloria Origgi]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Does the Human Species Have the Will to Survive by Dave Winer|Does the Human Species Have the Will to Survive by Dave Winer]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Exploring the Future Changes the Future by Daniel C. Dennett|Exploring the Future Changes the Future by Daniel C. Dennett]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Global Warming Once Again, a Most Serious Challenge to Our Species by Milford H. Wolpoff|Global Warming Once Again, a Most Serious Challenge to Our Species by Milford H. Wolpoff]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Human-centered Ethics Ignore the Capacity to Suffer by Richard Dawkins|Human-centered Ethics Ignore the Capacity to Suffer by Richard Dawkins]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Humanity Is a Brief and Reckless Episode in Bacterial Time by Lynn Margulis|Humanity Is a Brief and Reckless Episode in Bacterial Time by Lynn Margulis]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Humanity May Be Passing from Animals to True Humans by W. Daniel Hillis|Humanity May Be Passing from Animals to True Humans by W. Daniel Hillis]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Humanity May Not Persist as a Single Species by Martin Rees|Humanity May Not Persist as a Single Species by Martin Rees]] - [[reminders/Civilization/In the Future the Human Species Will Unite to Fight Alien Species by John Horgan|In the Future the Human Species Will Unite to Fight Alien Species by John Horgan]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Intelligence Is Not Evolution's Inevitable Destination by P Z Myers|Intelligence Is Not Evolution's Inevitable Destination by P Z Myers]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Material Life Is All There Is by Robert Provine|Material Life Is All There Is by Robert Provine]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Mother Nature Is Not Our Friend by Sam Harris|Mother Nature Is Not Our Friend by Sam Harris]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Nature and Nurture Are Complementary Not Competing Forces by W. Tecumseh Fitch|Nature and Nurture Are Complementary Not Competing Forces by W. Tecumseh Fitch]] - [[reminders/Civilization/No Single Mind Can Solve the Problems Facing Our Species by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg|No Single Mind Can Solve the Problems Facing Our Species by Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Paleo-dna and De-extinction by W. Tecumseh Fitch|Paleo-dna and De-extinction by W. Tecumseh Fitch]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Pointing Is a Prerequisite for Language by Nick Enfield|Pointing Is a Prerequisite for Language by Nick Enfield]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Recognizing That the Body Is Not a Machine by Randolph Nesse|Recognizing That the Body Is Not a Machine by Randolph Nesse]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Who Should Make the Truly Global Decisions, and How by Izumi Aizu|Who Should Make the Truly Global Decisions, and How by Izumi Aizu]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Why Conservation Fails to Command Attention by Delta Willis|Why Conservation Fails to Command Attention by Delta Willis]] ### Neural Interfaces — 11 - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/A Monkey Can Embody a Robot Through a Brain Interface by Thomas Metzinger|A Monkey Can Embody a Robot Through a Brain Interface by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/A Single Neuron Can Recognize a Person by Terrence J. Sejnowski|A Single Neuron Can Recognize a Person by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Brain Prostheses Could Make the Internet Directly Accessible to Thought by Corey S. Powell|Brain Prostheses Could Make the Internet Directly Accessible to Thought by Corey S. Powell]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Changing My Mind About the Mind-body Problem by John Horgan|Changing My Mind About the Mind-body Problem by John Horgan]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Deep Brain Stimulation Will Become Neurocosmetic by Marcel Kinsbourne|Deep Brain Stimulation Will Become Neurocosmetic by Marcel Kinsbourne]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Humans May Merge with Machines as Cells Merged with Mitochondria by Susan Blackmore|Humans May Merge with Machines as Cells Merged with Mitochondria by Susan Blackmore]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Neural Implants Could Make Future Consequences Felt Now by Joshua Bongard|Neural Implants Could Make Future Consequences Felt Now by Joshua Bongard]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Neural Implants Will Become Part of Everyday Life by Rodney A. Brooks|Neural Implants Will Become Part of Everyday Life by Rodney A. Brooks]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Obsolete and Inappropriate Metaphors by Robert Provine|Obsolete and Inappropriate Metaphors by Robert Provine]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/The Cellphone Has Become a Social Prosthesis and Almost a Brain Implant by Robert Provine|The Cellphone Has Become a Social Prosthesis and Almost a Brain Implant by Robert Provine]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/True Lie Detection by Sam Harris|True Lie Detection by Sam Harris]] ### Machine Succession — 9 - [[reminders/Machine Succession/AI and Bionics Are Redefining Who Is in Charge by Timo Hannay|AI and Bionics Are Redefining Who Is in Charge by Timo Hannay]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Advanced Consciousness May Inherit the Torch of Life by Max Tegmark|Advanced Consciousness May Inherit the Torch of Life by Max Tegmark]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Children May Adapt to Machine Intelligence Better Than Their Parents by Timothy Taylor|Children May Adapt to Machine Intelligence Better Than Their Parents by Timothy Taylor]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Competing Paradigms Can Foment a Larger Theory by Melanie Swan|Competing Paradigms Can Foment a Larger Theory by Melanie Swan]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Free AI Could Become a Distributed Mind Without Clear Boundaries by Kevin Kelly|Free AI Could Become a Distributed Mind Without Clear Boundaries by Kevin Kelly]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Intelligent Machines May Emerge from Economically Viable Robots by Jordan Pollack|Intelligent Machines May Emerge from Economically Viable Robots by Jordan Pollack]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Posthuman Evolution Will Change Us All by Frank Tipler|Posthuman Evolution Will Change Us All by Frank Tipler]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Destructive Wrath of the General Purpose Computer by Jordan Pollack|The Destructive Wrath of the General Purpose Computer by Jordan Pollack]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/We Should Take the 'posthuman' Era Seriously by Martin Rees|We Should Take the 'posthuman' Era Seriously by Martin Rees]] ### Cybernetics — 7 - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety by John Naughton|Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety by John Naughton]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Falling into Place Entropy, Galileo's Frames of Reference, and the Desperate Ingenuity of Life by John Tooby|Falling into Place Entropy, Galileo's Frames of Reference, and the Desperate Ingenuity of Life by John Tooby]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Homeostasis Makes Complex Systems Stable by Martin Lercher|Homeostasis Makes Complex Systems Stable by Martin Lercher]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Nootropic Neural News by George Church|Nootropic Neural News by George Church]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/R G Increasing Inequality of Wealth and Income Is a Runaway Process by S. Abbas Raza|R G Increasing Inequality of Wealth and Income Is a Runaway Process by S. Abbas Raza]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Science Can Close the Feedback Loop Between Ideas and Invention by Neil Gershenfeld|Science Can Close the Feedback Loop Between Ideas and Invention by Neil Gershenfeld]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/The Computational Metaphor Distorts How We Understand the Brain by Rodney A. Brooks|The Computational Metaphor Distorts How We Understand the Brain by Rodney A. Brooks]] ### Consciousness — 5 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Animal Consciousness Ends the Last Claim of Human Specialness by Kate Jeffery|Animal Consciousness Ends the Last Claim of Human Specialness by Kate Jeffery]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Conscious Experience Is the Final Frontier of Natural Science by Barry C. Smith|Conscious Experience Is the Final Frontier of Natural Science by Barry C. Smith]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Evolution Cannot Give Us Moral Facts by Thomas Metzinger|Evolution Cannot Give Us Moral Facts by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/If Matter Is a Product of Consciousness Physicalism May Fail by Donald D. Hoffman|If Matter Is a Product of Consciousness Physicalism May Fail by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Natural Selection Built a Conscious Self That Treats Itself as an End by Nicholas Humphrey|Natural Selection Built a Conscious Self That Treats Itself as an End by Nicholas Humphrey]] ### Existential Risk — 5 - [[reminders/Existential Risk/Intelligence Determines How Long Civilizations Survive by Yuri Milner|Intelligence Determines How Long Civilizations Survive by Yuri Milner]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/One Third of Species May Be Headed Toward Extinction by Stuart Pimm|One Third of Species May Be Headed Toward Extinction by Stuart Pimm]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/Survival Depends on the Race Between Education and Catastrophe by Leon M. Lederman|Survival Depends on the Race Between Education and Catastrophe by Leon M. Lederman]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/The Sixth Mass Extinction Demands Immediate Action by Hans Ulrich Obrist|The Sixth Mass Extinction Demands Immediate Action by Hans Ulrich Obrist]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/We Cannot Calculate the Risks of Future AI by Gary Marcus|We Cannot Calculate the Risks of Future AI by Gary Marcus]] ### Simulation — 3 - [[reminders/Simulation/Building Minds in Computers May Be the Best Way to Understand Brains by Adam Bly|Building Minds in Computers May Be the Best Way to Understand Brains by Adam Bly]] - [[reminders/Simulation/Immersive Simulation Can Make Mathematical Structure Visible by Keith Devlin|Immersive Simulation Can Make Mathematical Structure Visible by Keith Devlin]] - [[reminders/Simulation/Virtual Reality May Rewrite Memory Itself by Clifford Pickover|Virtual Reality May Rewrite Memory Itself by Clifford Pickover]] ### Digital Life — 1 - [[reminders/Digital Life/Simple Rules Can Generate Artificial Life by Kai Krause|Simple Rules Can Generate Artificial Life by Kai Krause]] ### Mind Upload — 1 - [[reminders/Mind Upload/Wiring Brains Together May Erase the Boundary Between Selves by David Dalrymple|Wiring Brains Together May Erase the Boundary Between Selves by David Dalrymple]] <!-- END EDGE EVOLUTION AND MACHINE TRANSITION REMINDERS 2026-09-11 --> <!-- BEGIN EDGE QUOTATION PROMOTION REPORT 2026-09-11 --> ## Report-Prioritized Consciousness, Identity, and Machine Futures This 85-passage promotion executes the editorial queue derived from the still-unpromoted Edge archive: 30 Tier-S passages and 55 Tier-A passages, each directly checked against its official Edge response page and placed reciprocally in four existing wiki entries. ### Consciousness — 13 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Can a Machine Feel What an Organism Feels by Joshua Bongard|Can a Machine Feel What an Organism Feels by Joshua Bongard]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness May Be a Conjuring Trick by Nicholas Humphrey|Consciousness May Be a Conjuring Trick by Nicholas Humphrey]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness May Be a Continuum Rather Than an All-or-None State by Stanislas Dehaene|Consciousness May Be a Continuum Rather Than an All-or-None State by Stanislas Dehaene]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Do Brains Create Conscious Experience or Does Consciousness Create Brains by Donald D. Hoffman|Do Brains Create Conscious Experience or Does Consciousness Create Brains by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/How Do Trillions of Cells Become a Person by Daniel C. Dennett|How Do Trillions of Cells Become a Person by Daniel C. Dennett]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/How Do We Minimize Conscious Suffering in the Universe by Thomas Metzinger|How Do We Minimize Conscious Suffering in the Universe by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Our Best Tools Still Do Not Explain Conscious Experience by Donald D. Hoffman|Our Best Tools Still Do Not Explain Conscious Experience by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Prediction May Be the Common Mechanism Behind Much of the Mind by Lisa Feldman Barrett|Prediction May Be the Common Mechanism Behind Much of the Mind by Lisa Feldman Barrett]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Subjective Experience Should Be Treated as Fundamental Data by Francisco Varela|Subjective Experience Should Be Treated as Fundamental Data by Francisco Varela]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Conscious Self May Be Entirely the Activity of Neurons by Vilayanur Ramachandran|The Conscious Self May Be Entirely the Activity of Neurons by Vilayanur Ramachandran]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Hard Problem May Require a New Way of Thinking Rather Than New Facts by Nicholas Humphrey|The Hard Problem May Require a New Way of Thinking Rather Than New Facts by Nicholas Humphrey]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/We Take Other Minds on Faith by Daniel Gilbert|We Take Other Minds on Faith by Daniel Gilbert]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Why Does Grey Matter Become a Unique Stream of Self-Awareness by Freeman Dyson|Why Does Grey Matter Become a Unique Stream of Self-Awareness by Freeman Dyson]] ### Identity — 10 - [[reminders/Identity/A Brain Cannot Be Understood Apart From Its Cultural Context by Stephen M. Kosslyn|A Brain Cannot Be Understood Apart From Its Cultural Context by Stephen M. Kosslyn]] - [[reminders/Identity/Decisions Can Happen Without a Self Feeling It Made Them by Susan Blackmore|Decisions Can Happen Without a Self Feeling It Made Them by Susan Blackmore]] - [[reminders/Identity/Free Will and Emotion May Become Folk Concepts That No Longer Map Reality by David Berreby|Free Will and Emotion May Become Folk Concepts That No Longer Map Reality by David Berreby]] - [[reminders/Identity/How Malleable Can the Human Mind and Its Emotions Become by June Gruber|How Malleable Can the Human Mind and Its Emotions Become by June Gruber]] - [[reminders/Identity/Humans Are Blind to Many Processes That Shape Their Mental Lives by Adam Alter|Humans Are Blind to Many Processes That Shape Their Mental Lives by Adam Alter]] - [[reminders/Extended Mind/Personalized Software Could Become Part of the Person by Andy Clark|Personalized Software Could Become Part of the Person by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/Identity/The Brain Can Reveal a Decision Before the Self Knows It Has Decided by Eric R. Kandel|The Brain Can Reveal a Decision Before the Self Knows It Has Decided by Eric R. Kandel]] - [[reminders/Identity/The Conscious Self Repeatedly Loses Inner Autonomy by Thomas Metzinger|The Conscious Self Repeatedly Loses Inner Autonomy by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Identity/The Self May Be an Emergent Output Mistaken for a Decision-Maker by Bruce Hood|The Self May Be an Emergent Output Mistaken for a Decision-Maker by Bruce Hood]] - [[reminders/Identity/What Happens When We Learn Our Own Source Code by Eric R. Weinstein|What Happens When We Learn Our Own Source Code by Eric R. Weinstein]] ### AI Control — 9 - [[reminders/AI Control/Brain Data Can Predict How a Person Will Feel or Behave by Abigail Marsh|Brain Data Can Predict How a Person Will Feel or Behave by Abigail Marsh]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Data-Driven Governance Promises a System That Can Predict and Control the World by Dirk Helbing|Data-Driven Governance Promises a System That Can Predict and Control the World by Dirk Helbing]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Emotion Contagion Spreads Through Online Networks Without Direct Contact by June Gruber|Emotion Contagion Spreads Through Online Networks Without Direct Contact by June Gruber]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Human Decisions May Follow a Universal Algorithm by Stanislas Dehaene|Human Decisions May Follow a Universal Algorithm by Stanislas Dehaene]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Intelligent Systems May Be Too Complex to Understand by George Dyson|Intelligent Systems May Be Too Complex to Understand by George Dyson]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Machines Will Design Media to Induce Human Spending by Douglas Rushkoff|Machines Will Design Media to Induce Human Spending by Douglas Rushkoff]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Predictive Security Could Make Every Citizen's Whereabouts and Intentions Legible by Roger Schank|Predictive Security Could Make Every Citizen's Whereabouts and Intentions Legible by Roger Schank]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Social Networks Can Be Engineered to Shape Crowd Behavior by Alex Sandy Pentland|Social Networks Can Be Engineered to Shape Crowd Behavior by Alex Sandy Pentland]] - [[reminders/AI Control/The Internet Can Hijack the Neurons That Predict Reward by Terrence J. Sejnowski|The Internet Can Hijack the Neurons That Predict Reward by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ### Cybernetics — 9 - [[reminders/Planetary Mind/A Sensor-Woven Earth Could Develop Planetary Self-Awareness by Ivan Amato|A Sensor-Woven Earth Could Develop Planetary Self-Awareness by Ivan Amato]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Can One Process Explain Emergence Across Physics Life Minds and Machines by Robert Provine|Can One Process Explain Emergence Across Physics Life Minds and Machines by Robert Provine]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Can Technology Make Humans More Human Rather Than Machine Components by Howard Rheingold|Can Technology Make Humans More Human Rather Than Machine Components by Howard Rheingold]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Fast Enough Interconnection Could Turn Society Into One Individual by Richard Dawkins|Fast Enough Interconnection Could Turn Society Into One Individual by Richard Dawkins]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Humans Can Form Contingent Superorganisms by Jonathan Haidt|Humans Can Form Contingent Superorganisms by Jonathan Haidt]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Joining the Hive Mind May Change the Nature of the Self by Larry Sanger|Joining the Hive Mind May Change the Nature of the Self by Larry Sanger]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Part of Each Mind Spills Into Other Minds by Stephen M. Kosslyn|Part of Each Mind Spills Into Other Minds by Stephen M. Kosslyn]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/The Internet Is a Bottom-Up Self-Organized Emergent System by Michael Shermer|The Internet Is a Bottom-Up Self-Organized Emergent System by Michael Shermer]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/What Makes Minds and Societies Emerge From Simpler Parts by W. Daniel Hillis|What Makes Minds and Societies Emerge From Simpler Parts by W. Daniel Hillis]] ### Machine Succession — 8 - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Artificial Subjects Will Grow More Powerful and Complex by Piet Hut|Artificial Subjects Will Grow More Powerful and Complex by Piet Hut]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Can a Computer Encode More Actionable Wisdom Than Any Human by Scott Aaronson|Can a Computer Encode More Actionable Wisdom Than Any Human by Scott Aaronson]] - [[reminders/Thermodynamics/Intelligence May Be a Process That Maximizes Future Freedom of Action by Alexander Wissner-Gross|Intelligence May Be a Process That Maximizes Future Freedom of Action by Alexander Wissner-Gross]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Is a Singleton the Inevitable Destiny of Intelligent Life by Brian Christian|Is a Singleton the Inevitable Destiny of Intelligent Life by Brian Christian]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Are Already Thinking Up a Storm by Pamela McCorduck|Machines Are Already Thinking Up a Storm by Pamela McCorduck]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Self-Replicating Artificial Meme Machines Would No Longer Need Us by Susan Blackmore|Self-Replicating Artificial Meme Machines Would No Longer Need Us by Susan Blackmore]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Minute Before and After Artificial Superintelligence by Bruno Giussani|The Minute Before and After Artificial Superintelligence by Bruno Giussani]] - [[reminders/Personhood/When Will Human Being Stop Being a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell|When Will Human Being Stop Being a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell]] ### Information — 5 - [[reminders/Information/How Much Knowledge Can Humans and Intelligent Machines Ultimately Attain by Ian McEwan|How Much Knowledge Can Humans and Intelligent Machines Ultimately Attain by Ian McEwan]] - [[reminders/Information/Language Is Frozen Meaning by Todd Siler|Language Is Frozen Meaning by Todd Siler]] - [[reminders/Information/Machines Became Shared Extensions of Mind by Xeni Jardin|Machines Became Shared Extensions of Mind by Xeni Jardin]] - [[reminders/Information/Truly New Ideas Begin as Incomprehensible by Roger Schank|Truly New Ideas Begin as Incomprehensible by Roger Schank]] - [[reminders/Information/We Keep Explaining the Brain With Our Most Advanced Technology by Rodney A. Brooks|We Keep Explaining the Brain With Our Most Advanced Technology by Rodney A. Brooks]] ### Simulation — 5 - [[reminders/Simulation/Brain Models Can Simulate Neural Dynamics and the Behaviors They Control by Stephen Grossberg|Brain Models Can Simulate Neural Dynamics and the Behaviors They Control by Stephen Grossberg]] - [[reminders/Simulation/Can We Test Whether the Universe Is a Simulation by Keith Devlin|Can We Test Whether the Universe Is a Simulation by Keith Devlin]] - [[reminders/Simulation/Conscious Experience May Already Be a Virtual Model of Reality by Thomas Metzinger|Conscious Experience May Already Be a Virtual Model of Reality by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Simulation/The Predictive Brain Constructs a World of Human-Relevant Reality by Andy Clark|The Predictive Brain Constructs a World of Human-Relevant Reality by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/Simulation/Will Normal Augmented and Virtual Reality Become Indistinguishable by Andy Clark|Will Normal Augmented and Virtual Reality Become Indistinguishable by Andy Clark]] ### Deep Time — 4 - [[reminders/Deep Time/A Universe Without Stable Memory Would Be Incomprehensible by Andrei Linde|A Universe Without Stable Memory Would Be Incomprehensible by Andrei Linde]] - [[reminders/Deep Time/Can Life Bend the Universe to Fit Its Purposes by Freeman Dyson|Can Life Bend the Universe to Fit Its Purposes by Freeman Dyson]] - [[reminders/Deep Time/What Can Humanity Do Now for the Next Billion Years by Toby Ord|What Can Humanity Do Now for the Next Billion Years by Toby Ord]] - [[reminders/Deep Time/What Will Superintelligent Cosmic Life Ask Last by Max Tegmark|What Will Superintelligent Cosmic Life Ask Last by Max Tegmark]] ### Neural Interfaces — 4 - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Can Humans Develop Entirely New Senses by David M. Eagleman|Can Humans Develop Entirely New Senses by David M. Eagleman]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Decoding the Brain Could Replace Screens With Direct Information Transfer by Gary Marcus|Decoding the Brain Could Replace Screens With Direct Information Transfer by Gary Marcus]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/How Will Brain-to-Brain Communication Change Thought by Thalia Wheatley|How Will Brain-to-Brain Communication Change Thought by Thalia Wheatley]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Will Mental Prosthetics Connect Human and Machine Minds by Tania Lombrozo|Will Mental Prosthetics Connect Human and Machine Minds by Tania Lombrozo]] ### Digital Afterlife — 3 - [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/Human Intelligence Is Trying to Eradicate Death by Kate Jeffery|Human Intelligence Is Trying to Eradicate Death by Kate Jeffery]] - [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/What Comes After We Solve Aging Poverty Asteroids and Heat Death by George Church|What Comes After We Solve Aging Poverty Asteroids and Heat Death by George Church]] - [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/Will We Be Among the Last Generations in Human History That Die by Ryan McKay|Will We Be Among the Last Generations in Human History That Die by Ryan McKay]] ### Evolution — 3 - [[reminders/Evolution/Can Humans Transcend the Biological Limits Built Into Our Brains by Milford H. Wolpoff|Can Humans Transcend the Biological Limits Built Into Our Brains by Milford H. Wolpoff]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Cell Types May Be Dynamical Attractors by Stuart A. Kauffman|Cell Types May Be Dynamical Attractors by Stuart A. Kauffman]] - [[reminders/Evolution/How Far Can We Extend Beyond Human Limitations by Lisa Randall|How Far Can We Extend Beyond Human Limitations by Lisa Randall]] ### Existential Risk — 3 - [[reminders/Existential Risk/Anything Technically Possible May Be Done Somewhere Sometime by Martin Rees|Anything Technically Possible May Be Done Somewhere Sometime by Martin Rees]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/Could Genome Editing and Brain Interfaces Create a Superhuman Class by J. Craig Venter|Could Genome Editing and Brain Interfaces Create a Superhuman Class by J. Craig Venter]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/Synthetic Biological and Digital Life Put Humanity in Genuinely Novel Territory by Eric R. Weinstein|Synthetic Biological and Digital Life Put Humanity in Genuinely Novel Territory by Eric R. Weinstein]] ### Memory — 3 - [[reminders/Memory/Knowledge Is Moving From Inside the Mind to Outside Sources by Gerd Gigerenzer|Knowledge Is Moving From Inside the Mind to Outside Sources by Gerd Gigerenzer]] - [[reminders/Memory/Networked Observation Changes What Becomes Memory by Xeni Jardin|Networked Observation Changes What Becomes Memory by Xeni Jardin]] - [[reminders/Memory/The Internet Has Become a Second Bigger Brain by Daniel L. Everett|The Internet Has Become a Second Bigger Brain by Daniel L. Everett]] ### Mind Upload — 2 - [[reminders/Mind Upload/A Perfect Copy of My Pattern Would Not Necessarily Be Me by Ray Kurzweil|A Perfect Copy of My Pattern Would Not Necessarily Be Me by Ray Kurzweil]] - [[reminders/Mind Upload/Can We Download the Information Stored in the Human Brain by Mario Livio|Can We Download the Information Stored in the Human Brain by Mario Livio]] ### Preservation — 2 - [[reminders/Preservation/Future Biocomputing May Back Up the Neural Information That Defines Us by Bart Kosko|Future Biocomputing May Back Up the Neural Information That Defines Us by Bart Kosko]] - [[reminders/Preservation/How Do We Back Up Civilization Against Human Extinction by Albert Wenger|How Do We Back Up Civilization Against Human Extinction by Albert Wenger]] ### Civilization — 1 - [[reminders/Civilization/One Species Now Controls the Origin and Extinction of Others by Scott Sampson|One Species Now Controls the Origin and Extinction of Others by Scott Sampson]] ### Digital Life — 1 - [[reminders/Digital Life/The Net May Become the Constant While Home Becomes the Place You Go by Bruce Sterling|The Net May Become the Constant While Home Becomes the Place You Go by Bruce Sterling]] <!-- END EDGE QUOTATION PROMOTION REPORT 2026-09-11 --> <!-- BEGIN EDGE SUPPLEMENTAL PROMOTIONS 2026-09-12 --> ## Supplemental Early-Archive Promotions This supplemental pass adds 45 source-verified reminders from the 1998–2018 queue, records 14 candidates already contained in canonical reminders, holds one deliberately redundant companion, reclassifies four existing reminders under the sharper category distinctions, and introduces exactly seven bounded Reminder categories. ### Machine Succession — 5 - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Inorganic Intelligence Will Evolve for Billions of Years by Martin Rees|Inorganic Intelligence Will Evolve for Billions of Years by Martin Rees]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Download Will Proceed the Other Way by George Dyson|The Download Will Proceed the Other Way by George Dyson]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Intelligence Does Not Arise From the Medium That Embodies It by Pamela McCorduck|Intelligence Does Not Arise From the Medium That Embodies It by Pamela McCorduck]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Our Descendants May Be Artificial Life Forms by John C. Mather|Our Descendants May Be Artificial Life Forms by John C. Mather]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Last Fully Biological Human at the Last Supper by Lorraine Justice|The Last Fully Biological Human at the Last Supper by Lorraine Justice]] ### Consciousness — 4 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Past a Connectivity Threshold a System Begins to Run Itself by Stanislas Dehaene|Past a Connectivity Threshold a System Begins to Run Itself by Stanislas Dehaene]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness Is a Sliver of the Machine We Call Intelligence by Mahzarin Banaji|Consciousness Is a Sliver of the Machine We Call Intelligence by Mahzarin Banaji]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Funeral of Truer Perception Will Bring Regime Change by Donald D. Hoffman|The Funeral of Truer Perception Will Bring Regime Change by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/If the Mind Cannot Understand Itself Nothing Is Fully Intelligible by Nicholas G. Carr|If the Mind Cannot Understand Itself Nothing Is Fully Intelligible by Nicholas G. Carr]] ### Capture — 3 - [[reminders/Capture/Technology Delivers Fake Fitness Better Than Real Fitness by Geoffrey Miller|Technology Delivers Fake Fitness Better Than Real Fitness by Geoffrey Miller]] - [[reminders/Capture/A Technical Structure Is Not a Metaphor for Liberty by Nicholas G. Carr|A Technical Structure Is Not a Metaphor for Liberty by Nicholas G. Carr]] - [[reminders/Capture/What Will Be the Use of the Ninety-Nine Percent by David Haig|What Will Be the Use of the Ninety-Nine Percent by David Haig]] ### Identity — 3 - [[reminders/Identity/Copyable Memory Dissolves the Line Between You and Me by Max Tegmark|Copyable Memory Dissolves the Line Between You and Me by Max Tegmark]] - [[reminders/Identity/Who Is the Me That Is Making the Decision by Clifford Pickover|Who Is the Me That Is Making the Decision by Clifford Pickover]] - [[reminders/Identity/Almost No Atom Stays With You From Cradle to Grave by Tor Nørretranders|Almost No Atom Stays With You From Cradle to Grave by Tor Nørretranders]] ### Selection — 3 - [[reminders/Selection/One Germline Tweak Can Compel a Species to Go Extinct by Stewart Brand|One Germline Tweak Can Compel a Species to Go Extinct by Stewart Brand]] - [[reminders/Selection/Eugenics Is Not Only Possible It Is Trivial by Gregory Cochran|Eugenics Is Not Only Possible It Is Trivial by Gregory Cochran]] - [[reminders/Selection/Ambitious Parents Will Modify Their Own Babies by Freeman Dyson|Ambitious Parents Will Modify Their Own Babies by Freeman Dyson]] ### AI Control — 2 - [[reminders/AI Control/A Technology May Halt Science to Preserve Itself by George Dyson|A Technology May Halt Science to Preserve Itself by George Dyson]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Smart Technology Is Not Smart Until It Can Decenter by Gary Klein|Smart Technology Is Not Smart Until It Can Decenter by Gary Klein]] ### Cybernetics — 2 - [[reminders/Cybernetics/The Representation Eclipses the Thing It Represents by W. Daniel Hillis|The Representation Eclipses the Thing It Represents by W. Daniel Hillis]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/The Clock Converted Time Into a Reality Independent of Us by W. Daniel Hillis|The Clock Converted Time Into a Reality Independent of Us by W. Daniel Hillis]] ### Existential Risk — 2 - [[reminders/Existential Risk/The Most Dangerous Idea Was the Capacity for Ideas by Seth Lloyd|The Most Dangerous Idea Was the Capacity for Ideas by Seth Lloyd]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/We Are the First Humans Who Could Destroy the Whole World by Howard Gardner|We Are the First Humans Who Could Destroy the Whole World by Howard Gardner]] ### Extended Mind — 2 - [[reminders/Extended Mind/We Are Already Mental Cyborgs by Andy Clark|We Are Already Mental Cyborgs by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/Extended Mind/Our Minds Now Run on Internet Prosthetic Brains by Clifford Pickover|Our Minds Now Run on Internet Prosthetic Brains by Clifford Pickover]] ### Information — 2 - [[reminders/Information/The Universe Is a Quantum Computer by Seth Lloyd|The Universe Is a Quantum Computer by Seth Lloyd]] - [[reminders/Information/What Is a Computer but a Copying Machine by John Naughton|What Is a Computer but a Copying Machine by John Naughton]] ### Memory — 2 - [[reminders/Memory/We Can Now Remember Everything That Ever Happens to Us by Charles Seife|We Can Now Remember Everything That Ever Happens to Us by Charles Seife]] - [[reminders/Memory/The Great Mistake Will Be Confusing Memory With Storage by Kevin Slavin|The Great Mistake Will Be Confusing Memory With Storage by Kevin Slavin]] ### Mind Upload — 2 - [[reminders/Mind Upload/Backed-Up Minds Lose Only Their Latest Memories by Max Tegmark|Backed-Up Minds Lose Only Their Latest Memories by Max Tegmark]] - [[reminders/Mind Upload/A Copy Made of Other Materials Would Think It Was You by Clifford Pickover|A Copy Made of Other Materials Would Think It Was You by Clifford Pickover]] ### Neural Interfaces — 2 - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Radiotelepathy Will Let Us Feel a Wolf-Pack Hunting by Freeman Dyson|Radiotelepathy Will Let Us Feel a Wolf-Pack Hunting by Freeman Dyson]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Entire Movies Can Be Decoded From the Cortex by Stanislas Dehaene|Entire Movies Can Be Decoded From the Cortex by Stanislas Dehaene]] ### Personhood — 2 - [[reminders/Personhood/Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller|Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller]] - [[reminders/Personhood/From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller|From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller]] ### Simulation — 2 - [[reminders/Simulation/The Physical World Is a Species-Specific User Interface by Donald D. Hoffman|The Physical World Is a Species-Specific User Interface by Donald D. Hoffman]] - [[reminders/Simulation/One Virtual Reality Is Being Embedded Into Another by Thomas Metzinger|One Virtual Reality Is Being Embedded Into Another by Thomas Metzinger]] ### Deep Time — 1 - [[reminders/Deep Time/Intelligent Life Must Convert the Universe Into a Biosphere by Frank Tipler|Intelligent Life Must Convert the Universe Into a Biosphere by Frank Tipler]] ### Digital Afterlife — 1 - [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/Your Electronic Tattoos Will Outlive Your Body by Juan Enriquez|Your Electronic Tattoos Will Outlive Your Body by Juan Enriquez]] ### Digital Life — 1 - [[reminders/Digital Life/We Cannot Build Life Because We Cannot Define It by Rodney A. Brooks|We Cannot Build Life Because We Cannot Define It by Rodney A. Brooks]] ### Planetary Mind — 1 - [[reminders/Planetary Mind/Humanity Becomes a Single Hive Mind by Clifford Pickover|Humanity Becomes a Single Hive Mind by Clifford Pickover]] ### Risk Debate — 1 - [[reminders/Risk Debate/We Created the System but We Did Not Design It by W. Daniel Hillis|We Created the System but We Did Not Design It by W. Daniel Hillis]] ### Space Survival — 1 - [[reminders/Space Survival/Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple|Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple]] ### Surveillance — 1 - [[reminders/Surveillance/Biometric Streams Will Predict Your Mental State by Melanie Swan|Biometric Streams Will Predict Your Mental State by Melanie Swan]] <!-- END EDGE SUPPLEMENTAL PROMOTIONS 2026-09-12 --> ## A Hundred Source-Checked Edge Promotions — 2026-09-13 These 100 poster-ready reminders retain each contributor's own question or response passage and link reciprocally to 60 existing wiki topics. The [[research/Edge Hundred Editorial Decisions - 2026-09-13.jsonl|editorial decision ledger]] records the source, exact wording check, topic placement, and permalink for every promotion. ### 2018 — 62 - [[reminders/AI Control/Can We Reliably Align an AGI to Stop an Unaligned AGI by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky|Can We Reliably Align an AGI to Stop an Unaligned AGI by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Why Do Machine-Learning Errors Differ From Human Errors by Jason Wilkes|Why Do Machine-Learning Errors Differ From Human Errors by Jason Wilkes]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Can AI Help Build Trustworthy Global Institutions by Tim O'Reilly|Can AI Help Build Trustworthy Global Institutions by Tim O'Reilly]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Can Technology Reduce Conflict Equitably by Jon Kleinberg|Can Technology Reduce Conflict Equitably by Jon Kleinberg]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Can a Powerful Species Survive Its Most Extreme Members by Bruce Schneier|Can a Powerful Species Survive Its Most Extreme Members by Bruce Schneier]] - [[reminders/Civilization/How Do We Build a Civilization That Thinks Long Term by Samuel Arbesman|How Do We Build a Civilization That Thinks Long Term by Samuel Arbesman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Can Humans Transcend Linear Experience of Time by Noga Arikha|Can Humans Transcend Linear Experience of Time by Noga Arikha]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Can One Test Measure Human Animal and Machine Intelligence by Steve Fuller|Can One Test Measure Human Animal and Machine Intelligence by Steve Fuller]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Can We Directly Experience the Mind of Another Entity by Ian Bogost|Can We Directly Experience the Mind of Another Entity by Ian Bogost]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Can We Recognize the Limits of Human Understanding by David Pizarro|Can We Recognize the Limits of Human Understanding by David Pizarro]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Could Consciousness Operate Independently of the Brain by Daniel Goleman|Could Consciousness Operate Independently of the Brain by Daniel Goleman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Could the Hard Problem of Consciousness Dissolve by Dale W Jamieson|Could the Hard Problem of Consciousness Dissolve by Dale W Jamieson]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Do Qualia Computation Creativity and Free Will Share a Problem by David Deutsch|Do Qualia Computation Creativity and Free Will Share a Problem by David Deutsch]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/How Can Grey Matter Discover Truths From Quarks to Quasars by Alison Gopnik|How Can Grey Matter Discover Truths From Quarks to Quasars by Alison Gopnik]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/How Can One Brain Architecture Make Many Kinds of Minds by Lisa Feldman Barrett|How Can One Brain Architecture Make Many Kinds of Minds by Lisa Feldman Barrett]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Is the Brain Fundamentally Limited in What It Can Understand by Stanislas Dehaene|Is the Brain Fundamentally Limited in What It Can Understand by Stanislas Dehaene]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/What Can a Conscious Mind Do That an Unconscious Mind Cannot by Richard Nisbett|What Can a Conscious Mind Do That an Unconscious Mind Cannot by Richard Nisbett]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/What Makes Human Cognition So Different From Other Animals by Laurie R. Santos|What Makes Human Cognition So Different From Other Animals by Laurie R. Santos]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/When Did Animal Life First Become Capable of Love by Abigail Marsh|When Did Animal Life First Become Capable of Love by Abigail Marsh]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Can Machines Design a Humane Built Environment by Greg Lynn|Can Machines Design a Humane Built Environment by Greg Lynn]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/How Can We Maintain Software in Long-Lived Devices That Can Kill by Ross Anderson|How Can We Maintain Software in Long-Lived Devices That Can Kill by Ross Anderson]] - [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/What Happens When Humans Outlive Their Optimal Lifespan by Richard H. Thaler|What Happens When Humans Outlive Their Optimal Lifespan by Richard H. Thaler]] - [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/What Happens to Families When We Live Beyond 150 by Helen Fisher|What Happens to Families When We Live Beyond 150 by Helen Fisher]] - [[reminders/Digital Life/Is There a Turing Test for Living Rather Than Thinking by Neil Gershenfeld|Is There a Turing Test for Living Rather Than Thinking by Neil Gershenfeld]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Can Biological Creatures Rebel Against Their Genes by Itai Yanai|Can Biological Creatures Rebel Against Their Genes by Itai Yanai]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Can Human Psychology Keep Pace With Technological Evolution by Cristine H. Legare|Can Human Psychology Keep Pace With Technological Evolution by Cristine H. Legare]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Could One Biological Tweak Improve Cognition Health and Aging by David C. Geary|Could One Biological Tweak Improve Cognition Health and Aging by David C. Geary]] - [[reminders/Evolution/What Will Evolution Make of Life in a Hundred Thousand Years by Jonathan B. Losos|What Will Evolution Make of Life in a Hundred Thousand Years by Jonathan B. Losos]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Can Education Be Redesigned Around Neurodiversity by Simon Baron-Cohen|Can Education Be Redesigned Around Neurodiversity by Simon Baron-Cohen]] - [[reminders/Identity/Can Science Explain the Singular Individuality of Mental Life by Todd C. Sacktor|Can Science Explain the Singular Individuality of Mental Life by Todd C. Sacktor]] - [[reminders/Identity/Can Simulated Intimacy Change Human Relationships by Sherry Turkle|Can Simulated Intimacy Change Human Relationships by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/Identity/Do Microbes Shape Both the Continuity and Change of a Person by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field|Do Microbes Shape Both the Continuity and Change of a Person by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field]] - [[reminders/Identity/What Happens to Love When We Can Design a Robot Lover by Kurt Gray|What Happens to Love When We Can Design a Robot Lover by Kurt Gray]] - [[reminders/Identity/Why Does Algorithmic Approximation Matter to Us by Coco Krumme|Why Does Algorithmic Approximation Matter to Us by Coco Krumme]] - [[reminders/Identity/Will a World of Bots Change the Meaning of I by Gianluigi Ricuperati|Will a World of Bots Change the Meaning of I by Gianluigi Ricuperati]] - [[reminders/Information/Can Open Data Coexist With the Value of Scarce Information by Charles Seife|Can Open Data Coexist With the Value of Scarce Information by Charles Seife]] - [[reminders/Information/Does Human Language Limit Our Collective Knowledge by Nick Enfield|Does Human Language Limit Our Collective Knowledge by Nick Enfield]] - [[reminders/Information/How Much Reality Depends on Convincing Stories by Barnaby Marsh|How Much Reality Depends on Convincing Stories by Barnaby Marsh]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Can Humans and Superintelligent AIs Ever Agree by Frank Tipler|Can Humans and Superintelligent AIs Ever Agree by Frank Tipler]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Could Another Earthly Species Succeed Humanity by David Edelman|Could Another Earthly Species Succeed Humanity by David Edelman]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Could a Machine Correctly Answer Every Question by David Chalmers|Could a Machine Correctly Answer Every Question by David Chalmers]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/How Simple Can a Human-Level Learning Machine Be by Christopher Chabris|How Simple Can a Human-Level Learning Machine Be by Christopher Chabris]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Why Is Human Reasoning Still More Flexible Than Machines by Gary Marcus|Why Is Human Reasoning Still More Flexible Than Machines by Gary Marcus]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Will Superintelligent AIs Be Shaped by Other AIs by Jaan Tallinn|Will Superintelligent AIs Be Shaped by Other AIs by Jaan Tallinn]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Can We Shape Brain Development to Avert Mental Illness by Linda Wilbrecht|Can We Shape Brain Development to Avert Mental Illness by Linda Wilbrecht]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Can We Trace Human Communication From Genes to Circuits by Athena Vouloumanos|Can We Trace Human Communication From Genes to Circuits by Athena Vouloumanos]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Is the Neuron the Smallest Unit of Brain Information by Dorsa Amir|Is the Neuron the Smallest Unit of Brain Information by Dorsa Amir]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/What Method Could Explain the Neural Basis of Consciousness by Leo M. Chalupa|What Method Could Explain the Neural Basis of Consciousness by Leo M. Chalupa]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/What Would a Complete Diagram of Imagination Require by Andrew Barron|What Would a Complete Diagram of Imagination Require by Andrew Barron]] - [[reminders/Personhood/Could Computational Intelligence Improve Our Moral Behavior by Mahzarin Banaji|Could Computational Intelligence Improve Our Moral Behavior by Mahzarin Banaji]] - [[reminders/Personhood/How Intelligent Must an Animal Be Before We Refuse to Eat It by Diana Reiss|How Intelligent Must an Animal Be Before We Refuse to Eat It by Diana Reiss]] - [[reminders/Personhood/How Will Reproduction Without Sex Change Humanity by Karl Sabbagh|How Will Reproduction Without Sex Change Humanity by Karl Sabbagh]] - [[reminders/Personhood/If Free Will Fails What Happens to Moral Responsibility by Jerry A. Coyne|If Free Will Fails What Happens to Moral Responsibility by Jerry A. Coyne]] - [[reminders/Personhood/Which Future Moral Norms Seem Transgressive Today by Kate Darling|Which Future Moral Norms Seem Transgressive Today by Kate Darling]] - [[reminders/Personhood/Without Self-Agency How Can We Explain Moral Accountability by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein|Without Self-Agency How Can We Explain Moral Accountability by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein]] - [[reminders/Personhood/Would an Embryo Built From Stem Cells Become a Person by Roger Highfield|Would an Embryo Built From Stem Cells Become a Person by Roger Highfield]] - [[reminders/Preservation/What Knowledge Will Descendants Forget at Evolutionary Bottlenecks by William Grassie|What Knowledge Will Descendants Forget at Evolutionary Bottlenecks by William Grassie]] - [[reminders/Preservation/What Libraries Will Infinitely Expandable Cloning Require by Thomas A. Bass|What Libraries Will Infinitely Expandable Cloning Require by Thomas A. Bass]] - [[reminders/Preservation/What Will Vanish With Biological and Cultural Diversity by Daniel Haun|What Will Vanish With Biological and Cultural Diversity by Daniel Haun]] - [[reminders/Preservation/Will Reading and Writing Survive Video and Audio by Marti Hearst|Will Reading and Writing Survive Video and Audio by Marti Hearst]] - [[reminders/Surveillance/Why Are Uninformed Beliefs So Easy to Manipulate by Roger Schank|Why Are Uninformed Beliefs So Easy to Manipulate by Roger Schank]] - [[reminders/Thermodynamics/Could Intelligent Life Flourish Against Cosmic Entropy by David Dalrymple|Could Intelligent Life Flourish Against Cosmic Entropy by David Dalrymple]] ### 2017 — 4 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Could the Brainstem Anchor the Continuity of Self by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran|Could the Brainstem Anchor the Continuity of Self by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Cancer Shows That Evolution Does Not Mean Progress by Itai Yanai|Cancer Shows That Evolution Does Not Mean Progress by Itai Yanai]] - [[reminders/Identity/We Are More Social Than Our Self-Image Admits by Ziyad Marar|We Are More Social Than Our Self-Image Admits by Ziyad Marar]] - [[reminders/Thermodynamics/Life Fights Entropy With Energy and Information by Steven Pinker|Life Fights Entropy With Energy and Information by Steven Pinker]] ### 2016 — 2 - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Learning Is Becoming an Automated Feature of Things by Kevin Kelly|Learning Is Becoming an Automated Feature of Things by Kevin Kelly]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Computers Are Becoming Our Prosthetic Organs and Eyes by Thomas A. Bass|Computers Are Becoming Our Prosthetic Organs and Eyes by Thomas A. Bass]] ### 2014 — 3 - [[reminders/AI Control/Behavior Changes Through Situations Habits and Emotion by Laurie R. Santos and Tamar Gendler|Behavior Changes Through Situations Habits and Emotion by Laurie R. Santos and Tamar Gendler]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Brain Is One Interactive System Not Two Rival Sides by Stephen M. Kosslyn|The Brain Is One Interactive System Not Two Rival Sides by Stephen M. Kosslyn]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/Ancient Brains Are Blind to Planetary Threats by Daniel Goleman|Ancient Brains Are Blind to Planetary Threats by Daniel Goleman]] ### 2011 — 1 - [[reminders/Identity/A Self Is Made of Genes Family Culture and Era by Samuel Barondes|A Self Is Made of Genes Family Culture and Era by Samuel Barondes]] ### 2005 — 2 - [[reminders/Human Animality/Evolution Gave Humans Too Few Ways to Express Ourselves by Jaron Lanier|Evolution Gave Humans Too Few Ways to Express Ourselves by Jaron Lanier]] - [[reminders/Planetary Mind/Can Collective Intelligence Take Over Individual Minds by Alex Sandy Pentland|Can Collective Intelligence Take Over Individual Minds by Alex Sandy Pentland]] ### 2004 — 14 - [[reminders/Civilization/Straight-Line Futures Are Persuasive and Usually Wrong by Pamela McCorduck|Straight-Line Futures Are Persuasive and Usually Wrong by Pamela McCorduck]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Intelligence Depends on the Rules That Wire the Brain by Steve Grand|Intelligence Depends on the Rules That Wire the Brain by Steve Grand]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Perception Conceals the Work of the Brain by Al Seckel|Perception Conceals the Work of the Brain by Al Seckel]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Technology Grows More Organic as Biology Becomes Technology by W. Brian Arthur|Technology Grows More Organic as Biology Becomes Technology by W. Brian Arthur]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Every New Thread of Life Depends on Earlier Threads by Scott Sampson|Every New Thread of Life Depends on Earlier Threads by Scott Sampson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Genes Minds and Technology Coevolve by Robert Aunger|Genes Minds and Technology Coevolve by Robert Aunger]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Neural Plasticity Lets Culture Extend Ape Cognition by John R. Skoyles|Neural Plasticity Lets Culture Extend Ape Cognition by John R. Skoyles]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Other Organisms Are the Organism's Environment by John Rennie|Other Organisms Are the Organism's Environment by John Rennie]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Society Innovates Through Unconscious Idea Sharing by Allan Snyder|Society Innovates Through Unconscious Idea Sharing by Allan Snyder]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Brain Develops Through Evolutionary Cell Programs by Gary Marcus|The Brain Develops Through Evolutionary Cell Programs by Gary Marcus]] - [[reminders/Evolution/We Can Ask New Questions About Our Own Evolution by J. Craig Venter|We Can Ask New Questions About Our Own Evolution by J. Craig Venter]] - [[reminders/Mind Upload/Once the Mind Is Specified Only Its Hardware Remains by Dylan Evans|Once the Mind Is Specified Only Its Hardware Remains by Dylan Evans]] - [[reminders/Personhood/Animal Intelligence Faces a Double Standard by Irene Pepperberg|Animal Intelligence Faces a Double Standard by Irene Pepperberg]] - [[reminders/Surveillance/Frames Can Cause the Brain to Ignore Contradictory Facts by George Lakoff|Frames Can Cause the Brain to Ignore Contradictory Facts by George Lakoff]] ### 2003 — 2 - [[reminders/Evolution/Sequence the Genomes of Every Species on Earth by Freeman Dyson|Sequence the Genomes of Every Species on Earth by Freeman Dyson]] - [[reminders/Information/A Genome Sequence Is Only a Gene Index by Terrence J. Sejnowski|A Genome Sequence Is Only a Gene Index by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ### 2002 — 1 - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Physical Basis of Thought Remains Astonishing by Paul Bloom|The Physical Basis of Thought Remains Astonishing by Paul Bloom]] ### 2000 — 3 - [[reminders/Consciousness/Brain-Circuit Models Begin to Explain How Minds Arise by Stephen Grossberg|Brain-Circuit Models Begin to Explain How Minds Arise by Stephen Grossberg]] - [[reminders/Identity/No Individual Exists Outside Relational Processes by Stephen R. Kellert|No Individual Exists Outside Relational Processes by Stephen R. Kellert]] - [[reminders/Information/Could Screens Erode Our Ability to Read a Paragraph by Keith Devlin|Could Screens Erode Our Ability to Read a Paragraph by Keith Devlin]] ### 1999 — 6 - [[reminders/Evolution/The Idea of Making Ideas Is a Cultural Invention by George Lakoff|The Idea of Making Ideas Is a Cultural Invention by George Lakoff]] - [[reminders/Existential Risk/The Computer or the Bomb Could Change Human Life Most by Dan Sperber|The Computer or the Bomb Could Change Human Life Most by Dan Sperber]] - [[reminders/Extended Mind/Spectroscopy Expanded the Human Sense of Sight by Richard Dawkins|Spectroscopy Expanded the Human Sense of Sight by Richard Dawkins]] - [[reminders/Information/Numbers Let Us Model and Predict the World by George Johnson|Numbers Let Us Model and Predict the World by George Johnson]] - [[reminders/Information/The Invisible Cultural System That Turns Knowledge Into Power by Howard Rheingold|The Invisible Cultural System That Turns Knowledge Into Power by Howard Rheingold]] - [[reminders/Preservation/World Knowledge Is Becoming a Distributed Digital Archive by Terrence J. Sejnowski|World Knowledge Is Becoming a Distributed Digital Archive by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ## Recent Mixed and Exceptional Promotions — 2026-09-13 These 20 additional Edge-derived reminders come from 18 distinct response essays. One response by Antony Garrett Lisi and one by Sherry Turkle each yielded two distinct poster passages. The [[research/Mixed Corpus Promotion/promoted-2026-09-13.json|mixed pass ledger]] and [[research/Exceptional Reminder Promotion/promoted-2026-09-13.json|exceptional pass ledger]] retain the individual source URLs and exact promoted passages. - [[reminders/Human Animality/Retribution Conflicts With a Scientific View of Behavior by Richard Dawkins|Retribution Conflicts With a Scientific View of Behavior by Richard Dawkins]] - [[reminders/Identity/Tools Can Become Extensions of Our Bodies and Minds by Antony Garrett Lisi|Tools Can Become Extensions of Our Bodies and Minds by Antony Garrett Lisi]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Deliberate Biohacking Could Transform Human Life by Antony Garrett Lisi|Deliberate Biohacking Could Transform Human Life by Antony Garrett Lisi]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Modern Institutions Rest on a Flawed Picture of Human Reason by David Berreby|Modern Institutions Rest on a Flawed Picture of Human Reason by David Berreby]] - [[reminders/Information/People Sometimes Choose Not to Know by Gerd Gigerenzer|People Sometimes Choose Not to Know by Gerd Gigerenzer]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Life and Intelligence Do Not Fulfill a Cosmic Plan by Sean Carroll|Life and Intelligence Do Not Fulfill a Cosmic Plan by Sean Carroll]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Humanity Is Psychologically Divided From Nature by Scott Sampson|Humanity Is Psychologically Divided From Nature by Scott Sampson]] - [[reminders/Memory/Memory Reassembles the Past Rather Than Recording It by Kate Jeffery|Memory Reassembles the Past Rather Than Recording It by Kate Jeffery]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Anxiety Comes With the Ability to Imagine the Future by Joseph LeDoux|Anxiety Comes With the Ability to Imagine the Future by Joseph LeDoux]] - [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines May Become Better Forecasters Than People by Paul Saffo|Machines May Become Better Forecasters Than People by Paul Saffo]] - [[reminders/Extinction/De-Extinction Can Foster False Hope for Biodiversity by Stuart Pimm|De-Extinction Can Foster False Hope for Biodiversity by Stuart Pimm]] - [[reminders/Evolution/The Human Brain Can Exceed Its Darwinian Design by Leonard Susskind|The Human Brain Can Exceed Its Darwinian Design by Leonard Susskind]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Brain Science Leaves Less Room for an Independent Self by Susan Blackmore|Brain Science Leaves Less Room for an Independent Self by Susan Blackmore]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Human Beings Are Prone to Treat Social Machines as Kindred by Sherry Turkle|Human Beings Are Prone to Treat Social Machines as Kindred by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/Cybernetics/Technology Changes How We See Ourselves by Sherry Turkle|Technology Changes How We See Ourselves by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Humanity Could Engineer a Cambrian Explosion of Body and Mind by Andy Clark|Humanity Could Engineer a Cambrian Explosion of Body and Mind by Andy Clark]] - [[reminders/Surveillance/The Internet Gives Powerful Institutions New Control by Bruce Schneier|The Internet Gives Powerful Institutions New Control by Bruce Schneier]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Humanity May Never Recognize a Conscious Computer by Todd E. Feinberg|Humanity May Never Recognize a Conscious Computer by Todd E]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Understanding the Mind Requires More Than the Brain by Tania Lombrozo|Understanding the Mind Requires More Than the Brain by Tania Lombrozo]] - [[reminders/Deception/Deception May Crowd Out Genuine Information by Eric R. Weinstein|Deception May Crowd Out Genuine Information by Eric R]] ## Twenty Additional 2018 Edge Questions — 2026-09-13 These 20 source-checked items preserve the contributors’ questions as questions. The [[research/Edge 2018 Additional Twenty Decisions - 2026-09-13.jsonl|editorial ledger]] records each original Edge page, permalink, and wiki placement; the [[research/Edge 2018 Additional Twenty Source Verification - 2026-09-13.jsonl|source-check ledger]] records the exact-match check against all 20 original response pages. - [[reminders/Evolution/Could Genes Contribute to Ethnic and Religious Tensions by Martin Lercher|Could Genes Contribute to Ethnic and Religious Tensions by Martin Lercher]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/What Is the Biological Price of Humor by Isabel Behncke Izquierdo|What Is the Biological Price of Humor by Isabel Behncke Izquierdo]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Do Other Mammals Help Us Understand Human Cognition by John W. Krakauer|Do Other Mammals Help Us Understand Human Cognition by John W. Krakauer]] - [[reminders/Information/Why Does Clear Evidence So Rarely Persuade by Tim Maudlin|Why Does Clear Evidence So Rarely Persuade by Tim Maudlin]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Can Behavioral Science Make Healthy Habits Last by Eric Topol|Can Behavioral Science Make Healthy Habits Last by Eric Topol]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Why Does Unaccountable Power Invite Abuse by John Naughton|Why Does Unaccountable Power Invite Abuse by John Naughton]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Can Sex Differences Be Reconciled With Enlightenment Values by Helena Cronin|Can Sex Differences Be Reconciled With Enlightenment Values by Helena Cronin]] - [[reminders/Evolution/When Might Low Mood Have a Selective Advantage by Randolph Nesse|When Might Low Mood Have a Selective Advantage by Randolph Nesse]] - [[reminders/Information/Can Evidence Be Separated From Value Judgments by Sabine Hossenfelder|Can Evidence Be Separated From Value Judgments by Sabine Hossenfelder]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Can Science Address the Passion for War by Scott Atran|Can Science Address the Passion for War by Scott Atran]] - [[reminders/Information/Why Does Scientific Reasoning Face Public Opposition by Jared Diamond|Why Does Scientific Reasoning Face Public Opposition by Jared Diamond]] - [[reminders/Personhood/Can Humans Regard Others as Ends in Themselves by Michael McCullough|Can Humans Regard Others as Ends in Themselves by Michael McCullough]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Will Humanity Ever Speak One Primary Language by Richard Wrangham|Will Humanity Ever Speak One Primary Language by Richard Wrangham]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Can Life History Strategies Explain Historical Change by Hugo Mercier|Can Life History Strategies Explain Historical Change by Hugo Mercier]] - [[reminders/Information/How Can We Know That We Found Life Elsewhere by Carolyn Porco|How Can We Know That We Found Life Elsewhere by Carolyn Porco]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Why Did Humans Evolve Pure Mathematics by William H. Press|Why Did Humans Evolve Pure Mathematics by William H. Press]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Can Entertainment Over Understanding Have an Evolutionary Advantage by Lisa Mosconi|Can Entertainment Over Understanding Have an Evolutionary Advantage by Lisa Mosconi]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/What Would a Childhood Without Other Animals Do to the Mind by Bruce Hood|What Would a Childhood Without Other Animals Do to the Mind by Bruce Hood]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Could Biomechanics Explain Behavior We Credit to Brains by Asif A. Ghazanfar|Could Biomechanics Explain Behavior We Credit to Brains by Asif A. Ghazanfar]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Can Dangerous Wild Animals Learn Not to Threaten Humans by Stewart Brand|Can Dangerous Wild Animals Learn Not to Threaten Humans by Stewart Brand]] ## High-Priority Edge Promotions — 2026-09-23 This source-matched pass adds 57 complete Reminder objects from the remaining scored Edge pool. Forty-four preserve the exact archived extract as the readable Reminder; thirteen use a self-contained contiguous excerpt or light punctuation and transcription repair, with the complete archived wording retained in each `Sources and Context` section. 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Kandel|All Mental Processes Are Biological by Eric R. Kandel]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Anesthesia May Reveal Quantum Processes in the Brain by Stuart Hameroff|Anesthesia May Reveal Quantum Processes in the Brain by Stuart Hameroff]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Automatic Brain Responses Move Us Before Deliberation by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran|Automatic Brain Responses Move Us Before Deliberation by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Brain Science Can Help Design Better Human Lives by Steven R. Quartz|Brain Science Can Help Design Better Human Lives by Steven R. Quartz]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Brains Must Be Understood Inside Social and Environmental Systems by Jamshed Bharucha|Brains Must Be Understood Inside Social and Environmental Systems by Jamshed Bharucha]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Build a World Where Everyone Can Learn to Be Their Best by Mary Catherine Bateson|Build a World Where Everyone Can Learn to Be Their Best by Mary Catherine Bateson]] - [[reminders/Information/Cognition Depends on Cycles Within Cycles by Daniel C. Dennett|Cognition Depends on Cycles Within Cycles by Daniel C. Dennett]] - [[reminders/Scientific Literacy/Computer Education Must Spark Creativity Across Disciplines by Sherry Turkle|Computer Education Must Spark Creativity Across Disciplines by Sherry Turkle]] - [[reminders/AI Control/Computer Power Alone Will Not Produce Human-Level Intelligence by Terrence J. Sejnowski|Computer Power Alone Will Not Produce Human-Level Intelligence by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Culture Can Become Embodied in Human Biology by Nicholas A. Christakis|Culture Can Become Embodied in Human Biology by Nicholas A. Christakis]] - [[reminders/Information/Digital Networks Connected Science to Its Instruments by Paul Saffo|Digital Networks Connected Science to Its Instruments by Paul Saffo]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Emotional Intelligence Exists Between Brains by John Gottman|Emotional Intelligence Exists Between Brains by John Gottman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Every Decision Follows from the Previous Brain State by Thomas Metzinger|Every Decision Follows from the Previous Brain State by Thomas Metzinger]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution Cannot Satisfy Demands for Impossible Proof by Christopher J. Anderson|Evolution Cannot Satisfy Demands for Impossible Proof by Christopher J. Anderson]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Evolution Is Established but Still Needs Mathematical Laws by Roger Highfield|Evolution Is Established but Still Needs Mathematical Laws by Roger Highfield]] - [[reminders/Extinction/Extinction Limits What Future Generations Can Use or Enjoy by Stuart Pimm|Extinction Limits What Future Generations Can Use or Enjoy by Stuart Pimm]] - [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Eyeglasses Overcame a Supposedly Unavoidable Human Limitation by Tom Standage|Eyeglasses Overcame a Supposedly Unavoidable Human Limitation by Tom Standage]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Flying Machines Completed a Two-Million-Year Resource Network by Richard Potts|Flying Machines Completed a Two-Million-Year Resource Network by Richard Potts]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Gene Editing Can Permanently Alter Human Genomes by Stuart Firestein|Gene Editing Can Permanently Alter Human Genomes by Stuart Firestein]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Genomics Lets Us Compare Genes Across Populations and Species by Robert Sapolsky|Genomics Lets Us Compare Genes Across Populations and Species by Robert Sapolsky]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Human Cooperation May Resist Any Algorithm by Howard Rheingold|Human Cooperation May Resist Any Algorithm by Howard Rheingold]] - [[reminders/Memory/Human Memory Lacks the Maps Computer Memory Uses by Gary Marcus|Human Memory Lacks the Maps Computer Memory Uses by Gary Marcus]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Human Population Growth Was a One-Time Historical Surge by W. Daniel Hillis|Human Population Growth Was a One-Time Historical Surge by W. Daniel Hillis]] - [[reminders/Information/Humanity Is Inventing Technology Nature Never Used by Anton Zeilinger|Humanity Is Inventing Technology Nature Never Used by Anton Zeilinger]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Industrial Time Has Disconnected Us from Biological Rhythms by Douglas Rushkoff|Industrial Time Has Disconnected Us from Biological Rhythms by Douglas Rushkoff]] - [[reminders/Information/Information Exchange Organizes Societies Organisms and Galaxies by Seth Lloyd|Information Exchange Organizes Societies Organisms and Galaxies by Seth Lloyd]] - [[reminders/Space Survival/Intelligent Life May Be Commonplace Across the Galaxy by Martin Seligman|Intelligent Life May Be Commonplace Across the Galaxy by Martin Seligman]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Intuitive Dualism Misleads Us About Mind and Brain by Tania Lombrozo|Intuitive Dualism Misleads Us About Mind and Brain by Tania Lombrozo]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Language and Theory of Mind May Have Transformed Human Evolution by Scott Atran|Language and Theory of Mind May Have Transformed Human Evolution by Scott Atran]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Life May Arise from a Web of Causation by Nigel Goldenfeld|Life May Arise from a Web of Causation by Nigel Goldenfeld]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Microbial Life Has Staying Power by Kenneth W. Ford|Microbial Life Has Staying Power by Kenneth W. Ford]] - [[reminders/Evolution/Model Organisms Let Scientists Manipulate and Watch Life Grow by Nigel Goldenfeld|Model Organisms Let Scientists Manipulate and Watch Life Grow by Nigel Goldenfeld]] - [[reminders/Information/Moore's Law Cannot Explain Every Dimension of Digital Progress by Andrian Kreye|Moore's Law Cannot Explain Every Dimension of Digital Progress by Andrian Kreye]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Most Laughter Is Not a Response to Humor by Robert Provine|Most Laughter Is Not a Response to Humor by Robert Provine]] - [[reminders/Identity/Otherness Helps Define the Conscious Self by Dimitar D. Sasselov|Otherness Helps Define the Conscious Self by Dimitar D. Sasselov]] - [[reminders/Extinction/Our Blindness to Slow Dangers Threatens Countless Species by Daniel Goleman|Our Blindness to Slow Dangers Threatens Countless Species by Daniel Goleman]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/Our Genes Do Not Care About Our Happiness by Christopher J. Anderson|Our Genes Do Not Care About Our Happiness by Christopher J. Anderson]] - [[reminders/Information/Quantum Communication Has No Parallel in the Known Universe by Anton Zeilinger|Quantum Communication Has No Parallel in the Known Universe by Anton Zeilinger]] - [[reminders/Information/Quantum Computers Defied Forty-Year Predictions by Seth Lloyd|Quantum Computers Defied Forty-Year Predictions by Seth Lloyd]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Quantum Technology Will Send Us Searching the Brain for Quantum Computation by Stuart Hameroff|Quantum Technology Will Send Us Searching the Brain for Quantum Computation by Stuart Hameroff]] - [[reminders/Information/Rational Beliefs Should Defer to a Better-Informed Future Self by Nick Bostrom|Rational Beliefs Should Defer to a Better-Informed Future Self by Nick Bostrom]] - [[reminders/Information/Recursion Resides at the Core of Intelligence by Read Montague|Recursion Resides at the Core of Intelligence by Read Montague]] - [[reminders/Scientific Literacy/Science Has Yet to Form a Research Program for Art by Jonathan Gottschall|Science Has Yet to Form a Research Program for Art by Jonathan Gottschall]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Science Must Study the Causes of War by John Horgan|Science Must Study the Causes of War by John Horgan]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/Scientific Inquiry Is a Spiritual Quest for Connection by Carolyn Porco|Scientific Inquiry Is a Spiritual Quest for Connection by Carolyn Porco]] - [[reminders/Scientific Literacy/Scientific Literacy May Be Necessary for Human Survival by J. Craig Venter|Scientific Literacy May Be Necessary for Human Survival by J. Craig Venter]] - [[reminders/Scientific Literacy/Scientific Research Has Made Humanity Healthier and More Prosperous by James J. O'Donnell|Scientific Research Has Made Humanity Healthier and More Prosperous by James J. O'Donnell]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Technology Advances Faster Than Human Wisdom by Dan Sperber|Technology Advances Faster Than Human Wisdom by Dan Sperber]] - [[reminders/Civilization/Technology and Biology Are Changing What It Means to Be Human by Howard Gardner|Technology and Biology Are Changing What It Means to Be Human by Howard Gardner]] - [[reminders/Information/The Data Revolution Can Monitor Changes in the Human Condition by Alex Pentland|The Data Revolution Can Monitor Changes in the Human Condition by Alex Pentland]] - [[reminders/Human Animality/The Human Nervous System May Be in Decline by Douglas Rushkoff|The Human Nervous System May Be in Decline by Douglas Rushkoff]] - [[reminders/Consciousness/The Soul Is Inextricably Bound to the Living Brain by Todd E. Feinberg|The Soul Is Inextricably Bound to the Living Brain by Todd E. Feinberg]] - [[reminders/Exploration/We Are Running a Planet We Have Barely Mapped by Kevin Kelly|We Are Running a Planet We Have Barely Mapped by Kevin Kelly]] ## Principal trajectories ### Consciousness, identity, and substrate [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] · [[wiki/Qualia|Qualia]] · [[wiki/Substrate Independence|Substrate Independence]] · [[wiki/Functionalism|Functionalism]] · [[wiki/Receiving Substrate|Receiving Substrate]] · [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|Psychological Continuity]] · [[wiki/Post-Biological Personhood|Post-Biological Personhood]] ### Memory, models, and cognitive exteriorization [[wiki/Memory Continuity|Memory Continuity]] · [[wiki/Generative Memory Model|Generative Memory Model]] · [[wiki/Fidelity–Plasticity Paradox|Fidelity–Plasticity Paradox]] · [[wiki/Cognitive Exteriorization|Cognitive Exteriorization]] · [[wiki/Virtual Memory|Virtual Memory]] · [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]] · [[wiki/Epistemic Status Separation|Epistemic Status Separation]] ### Neural engineering [[wiki/Brain-Computer Interfaces|Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] · [[wiki/Neuroplasticity|Neuroplasticity]] · [[wiki/Optogenetics|Optogenetics]] · [[wiki/Causal Neural Manipulation|Causal Neural Manipulation]] · [[wiki/BRAIN Initiative|BRAIN Initiative]] ### Synthetic life, intelligence, and succession [[wiki/Synthetic Biology|Synthetic Biology]] · [[wiki/Artificial Heredity|Artificial Heredity]] · [[wiki/Artificial Life|Artificial Life]] · [[wiki/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] · [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] · [[wiki/Substrate-Independent Evolution|Substrate-Independent Evolution]] · [[wiki/Civilizational Payload|Civilizational Payload]] ### Collective intelligence and scientific possibility [[wiki/Collective Intelligence|Collective Intelligence]] · [[wiki/Distributed Intelligence|Distributed Intelligence]] · [[wiki/Coordination Substrate|Coordination Substrate]] · [[wiki/Complex Systems|Complex Systems]] · [[wiki/Information Theory|Information Theory]] · [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] · [[wiki/Technological Evolution|Technological Evolution]] ## Relationships - **Institutional source:** [[wiki/Edge.org|Edge.org]] published the Annual Questions and contributor responses indexed here. - **Master corpus:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] places this Edge-derived subset inside the complete multi-source Reminder library. - **Network builder:** [[wiki/John Brockman|John Brockman]] founded Edge and articulated its [[wiki/Third Culture|third-culture]] orientation. - **Historical predecessor:** [[collections/Whole Earth|Whole Earth]] preserves the access-to-tools and whole-systems lineage that [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] connects to Edge. - **Continuity route:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] develops Edge propositions about mind, memory, substrate, identity, and persistence. - **Succession route:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] develops Edge propositions about artificial intelligence, technological evolution, and civilizational successors. - **Technical route:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] develops the neural-interface and brain-engineering threshold. ## Sources and retained records - [Edge Annual Questions archive](https://www.edge.org/annual-questions) - [About Edge.org](https://www.edge.org/about-edgeorg) - [[research/Edge High-Priority Promotion Ledger - 2026-09-23.jsonl|Edge High-Priority Promotion Ledger]] — source IDs, exact and readable passages, direct Edge URLs, categories, permalinks, and reciprocal wiki placements for the 57-item September 23 pass. - [[research/Edge Passage Promotion Manifest - 2026-09-11.jsonl|Edge Passage Promotion Manifest]] — source rows, reminder files, exact passage dimensions, wiki placements, and before/after hashes for the 2026-09-11 promotion. - [[research/Edge Annual Question Promotion Coverage - 2026-09-11.jsonl|Edge Annual Question Promotion Coverage]] — per-collection promotion totals generated from the entry-level status links.