The Splintered Mind

Yesterday, I published two pieces," Severance, The Substance, and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves " in the New York Times , an...

today in the New York Times From one day to the next, you inhabit one body; you have access to one set of memories; your personality, va...

Allow me to revisit an anecdote I published in a piece for Time magazine last year. "Do you think people will ever fall in love with ...

Each New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 ,...

Everyone in my family agrees: The highlight of last summer's visit with our Australian cousins was recording a new Vengefull Kurtain Rod...

Suppose we take the " simulation hypothesis " seriously: We might be living not in the "base level" of reality but inste...

In previous work, I've found that eminent philosophers tend to do their most influential work when they are in their 40s (though the ag...

We shouldn't create morally confusing AI . That is, we shouldn't create AI systems whose moral standing is highly uncertain -- syst...

I've been thinking recently about partly unified conscious subjects (e.g., this paper in draft with Sophie R. Nelson). I've also ...

There's a fun new tool at Edhiphy . The designers pulled the full text from twelve leading philosophy journals from 1890 to 1980 and co...

(with Sophie R. Nelson) One philosophical inclination I shared with the late Dan Dennett is a love of weird perspectives on consciousn...

What are dreams like, experientially? One common view is that dreams are like hallucinations . They involve sensory or sensory-like exp...