Between Brain & Binary traces the long, intertwined history of mental health and artificial intelligence — from the first attempts to map the human mind in the 1800s to the empathic, AI-driven companions of today. It is a seven-part series exploring how psychology and machine intelligence have shaped, mirrored, and occasionally misunderstood each other across two centuries.
Each chapter moves forward in time, showing how new technologies — from Babbage’s mechanical reasoning to today’s conversational AI — repeatedly intersected with how we understand, diagnose, and care for the mind. This isn’t a technology history or a psychology history on its own; it’s the story of where the two have collided, cooperated, and changed each other.
Between Brain & Binary is the foundation series on Mindful Machines Journal. Two companion series build directly on it: At The Threshold bridges this history to the present moment, and Minds in the Machine Age examines the psychology of living alongside intelligent machines today.
Reading order
- Foundations: Mapping the Mind (1800s–1950s)
- Birth of AI and Early Dialogues (1950s–1970s)
- Parallel Frontiers: Early Telepsychiatry and Remote Care (1950s–1970s)
- Digital Psychiatry and the Web: Minds Online (1980s–2000s)
- The Empathic Turn: Emotion, Design, and Digital Companionship (2010s – Present)
- Looking Ahead: The Future of Mind and Machine
- Between Brain & Binary: Reflections and an Invitation
Start here: Foundations: Mapping the Mind (1800s–1950s)
Latest in this series: Between Brain & Binary: Reflections and an Invitation
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