# When Life Gives You a Brain On neuroscience, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. Written for curious humans. Page: Feed: --- ## [Is Seeing Really Believing?](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/is-seeing-really-believing) _2025-07-01 · Suzi Travis_ What happens when our senses disagree? ## [Looking for Meaning](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/looking-for-meaning) _2025-06-17 · Suzi Travis_ ...in all the wrong places ## [Does the Mind Need a Body?](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/does-the-mind-need-a-body) _2025-06-10 · Suzi Travis_ How enactivism tries to explain where meaning comes from. ## [What Gives Brain Activity Meaning?](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/what-gives-brain-activity-meaning) _2025-06-03 · Suzi Travis_ Can teleosemantics explain how mental representations get their meaning? ## [Does your Brain Represent the Outside World?](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/representationalism-in-neuroscience) _2025-05-27 · Suzi Travis_ The Rise (and Trouble) of Representationalism in Neuroscience ## [Could a Language Model Know What a Dog Is?](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/the-grounding-problem) _2025-05-20 · Suzi Travis_ The Grounding Problem and How Words Get Their Meaning ## [How to Talk to Aliens](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/how-to-talk-to-aliens) _2025-05-13 · Suzi Travis_ The Hitchhiker's Guide to Symbols ## [Hello? Is There Anybody in There?](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/searles-chinese-room) _2025-05-06 · Suzi Travis_ John Searle's Chinese Room Thought Experiment ## [If It Predicts, Is It Intelligent?](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/if-it-predicts-is-it-intelligent) _2025-04-22 · Suzi Travis_ The Trouble with Words ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bjRXDvhFeaN8) _2025-04-22 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [How to Build a Brain](https://suzitravis.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-brain) _2025-04-15 · Suzi Travis_ The difference between building and growing brains