Oops, I forgot to post links to my latest chapters of Aware on Substack: Desires Morals and Values There are perhaps two chapters and a…
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Aware: Free Will
Physics and neurons, basically Are freewill and determinism incompatible? Is there even a conflict?See my Substack for further information
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But, not bit… Why we will never be saved in computers One of the more common posthumanist themes is that we can download ourselves into…
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In which I discuss animal breath… One is often told or reads that the natural assumption of human cultures more or less universally is that…
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The next installment.:So, what is the explanatory target with the mind’s consciousness? What is it we physicalists cannot explain that needs the feels to account…
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This one has robots, sort of…
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As a young man/teenager, I heard a lot about worldviews, and didn’t think much of it. The philosophers talked about them, the theologians talked about…
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So, taking this extreme parsimony approach leads me to sharply distinguish between things that are and things we think there are. A good many of…
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So, what have I been doing for the Covid Lockdown. Many things. This is one of them. The CRC Press link is here, but I’ll…
Comments closedThoughts on the Hard Problem
Most of you will already know that David Chalmers, the once-hirsute Australian philosopher of mind (only Rob Wilson seems to remain in the Hirsute Philosopher’s…
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