Alexandru C. Stan

The Removal of Rails

The great dystopian dread can arrive with no biology in it at all — a stadium, a boardroom, and a crowd taught to love its own diminishment are enough. So what, precisely, does synthetic biology add? This essay's answer inverts the usual reading: synthetic biology invents no new...

Synesthesia: Mechanisms, Mappings, and the Geometry of the Senses

Synesthesia — the automatic, involuntary coupling in which one stimulus (an inducer) triggers an additional percept (a concurrent) in a second pathway — is examined across neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, information theory, and the philosophy of mind. One thesis runs through...