Nautilus Magazine

@NautilusMag · New York, NY · joined 06 Feb 2012

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85 256Followers

679Following

33 602Posts total

15.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag11 Sep

@NautilusMag @damasiousc #consciousness builds up from body-regulating layer, not down from the clever cortex. More carefully: going from there to saying feeling is body being mapped. Body might be richest thing we have to monitor, without being thing the feeling actually is. Cu 7 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag10 Sep

@NautilusMag @damasiousc the short answer: NO! Consciousness may arise in a nonbiological entity with an electronic neural network 30 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag9 Sep

For three decades, @damasiousc has argued feelings like hunger and pain are the foundation of consciousness. In a Nautilus interview, he explains why he's more confident in that theory now — and whether a robot body could ever have it. https://t.co/NuSe2bDoV7 https://t.co/fEclQWg

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Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag28 Aug

“It’s like waking from a dream; I just don’t remember,” said patient H.M., who lost the ability to form new memories after a 1953 brain surgery. Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara says conversation is how humans build identity and culture. https://t.co/1q1cds1ZD5 https://t.co/hgE3WNSunD

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Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag23 Aug

Vote to see Nautilus CEO Nicholas White and @mitpress Director Amy Brand explore what a healthy science information ecosystem needs to do differently in an age of YouTube, podcasts, and an eroding trust in institutions and media. Voting ends tonight! https://t.co/pjWqoY58a1 http

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Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag15 Aug

@NautilusMag Glad to see mescaline getting attention again! 16 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag14 Aug

A new fMRI study of mescaline in rats—the first since 1992—found it hits the cerebellum, not the cortex and thalamus like LSD and psilocybin. Researchers at Northeastern University say this may upend assumptions about how the drug works in the brain. https://t.co/bl5KmOta0h http

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Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag12 Aug

Psychedelics have been compared to microscopes, tools for observing the mind. In Sacred Plants of the Americas, Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White invert that metaphor using confocal microscopy, aiming for "an experience of microscopic awe." Interview: https://t.co/tYLgXHmMiT

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Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 141this account1 088median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.51%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.56%this account1.66%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 141	1 088	1.97×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.51%	3.86%	0.65×
Engagement rate	0.56%	1.66%	0.33×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.5K12 Aug

2.9K14 Aug

1615 Aug

2.2K23 Aug

2K28 Aug

5.6K9 Sep

3010 Sep

711 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.57%12 Aug

0.80%14 Aug

0.00%15 Aug

0.09%23 Aug

0.54%28 Aug

2.92%9 Sep

0.00%10 Sep

14.29%11 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.66%.

What the audience does

Likes50.8%167 in total

Reposts11.6%38 in total

Replies2.7%9 in total

Bookmarks35.0%115 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.