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What we're learning about the mind.
Short, plain-language writing on the science behind our work — each piece grounded in a peer-reviewed source you can check yourself.
What a connectome is — and why a complete map matters
The 2005 paper that coined "connectome" and framed a full brain map as foundational infrastructure for neuroscience.
Read → Open Neuron State of the artThe map keeps getting sharper: 180 regions per hemisphere
How a landmark 2016 Nature study delineated the human cortex in unprecedented, reproducible detail.
Read → Human Emotion Engine FoundationsThe idea that computers should understand emotion
How Rosalind Picard's 1997 work founded affective computing and argued that emotion is functional, not decorative.
Read → Human Emotion Engine Why it's hardWhy you can't read emotion from a face alone
A 2019 review shows facial movements are far more ambiguous than we assume — a caution built into our approach.
Read → AI Companion FoundationsThe first chatbot revealed how easily we bond with machines
ELIZA (1966) understood nothing, yet people confided in it — the "ELIZA effect" every companion AI must reckon with.
Read → AI Companion Evidence todayCan talking to an AI actually ease loneliness?
A 2024 study of 1,000+ companion-app users on what these systems are already doing for isolated people.
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