Aware updates

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…

Aware: Upload

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…

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…

Of Interest

One of the questions that have plagued my insomniac nights over the past decade or so is what makes something interesting. There are many proposals.…

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Who 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…

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My 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…

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Operative concepts

Gave a talk “The Good Species” yesterday (26 April 2022) to the HPS crowd at UniMelb. The discussion went a way I didn’t expect: classification…

New 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…

Thoughts 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…

My talk online

I recently gave a fuller version of my talk “Comprehension as Compression”, and I placed the slideshow on Slideshare. You may also download the PDF: