Alex Sully

Portugal is the most extraordinary country I’ve ever lived in. The land is wild and ancient. Food is honest. People are warm. Strangers wave from tractors. Old men give you tomatoes over the wall. Neighbours turn up with bread when the fire’s out.

I have lived off-grid in central Portugal for seven years. In that time I have watched people come for a week and leave changed. I have watched people come for a week and barely see the country at all. The difference is almost always the same. The first ones got off the tourist track. The second ones didn’t. This is not a tourist board list. This is what I would tell a friend who messaged me asking where to actually go. The Portuguese people are the trip I have to say this first because...

Exploring the serious science behind information, consciousness and causality Introduction There is a question sitting at the edge of modern physics that nobody has fully answered. We understand matter extraordinarily well. We can predict the behaviour of particles to dozens of decimal places. We have mapped the large scale structure of the universe and the behaviour of subatomic fields with breathtaking precision. But we still don’t have a satisfying answer to this. Why does conscious...