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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Aware: Dualism and the onus of proof
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…
Comments closedAware: A Matter of Perspective
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…
Comments closedAware: Information and Physics
This one has robots, sort of…
Comments closedWho invented worldviews?
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…
2 CommentsMy Absent Career 10: Contra Quality
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…
2 CommentsNew edited species book
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…
9 CommentsNew book contract
Well CRC Press haven’t learned their lesson yet, and have given me, Frank Zachos (Vienna) and Igor Pavlinov (Moscow) a contract for an edited book…
Comments closedA not terribly good post on the species problem
As a biological phenomenon the species problem is worthy of serious study as an end in itself, and not as a mere corollary to work…
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