https://anarchygames.org/magazine/tags/wellbeing/Recent content in Wellbeing on Cassette Future MagazineHugoen-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 20:27:33 +0000https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/06/why-nothing-feels-real-anymore-a-meaning-scientist-answers/Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:27:33 +0000https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/06/why-nothing-feels-real-anymore-a-meaning-scientist-answers/<h1 id="why-nothing-feels-real-anymore-a-meaning-scientist-answers">Why Nothing Feels Real Anymore: A Meaning Scientist Answers</h1> <p><strong>Kepler Station, Residential Ring 7</strong> — Professor Aiden Mori&rsquo;s quarters are aggressively ordinary. No neural-feed display. No ambient mood lighting calibrated to his biometrics. A kettle that you have to watch, because it doesn&rsquo;t alert you when it&rsquo;s ready.</p> <p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the point,&rdquo; he says, noticing me notice. &ldquo;The kettle requires your attention. Your attention is the thing.&rdquo;</p> <p>Mori holds the Galloway Chair in Applied Human Meaning at the Kepler Institute of Social Sciences — a position that sounds prestigious until you realize the Institute was founded by a collective of researchers who were, to a one, refused Assembly funding. They figured it out together. Nobody told them to.</p>