How Would We Know If We're Not Alone?

Ruminations on the biggest questions in modern science.

Hello again! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about wonder, curiosity and the exciting weirdness of modern scientific ideas.

Today, I’ll be leaning firmly into the last of those things. More specifically, a topic that’s been on my mind since Season 3, when we looked at how optical and visual illusions expose the cognitive glitches of our mind…