The Splintered Mind

If someday space aliens visit Earth, I will almost certainly think that they are conscious, if they behave anything like us.  If they have s...

In The Truman Show , main character Truman Burbank has been raised from birth, unbeknownst to him, as the star of a widely broadcast reality...

If I use autocomplete to help me write my email, the email is -- we ordinarily think -- still written by me.  If I ask ChatGPT to generate a...

guest post by  Nick Riggle One of the things I love about philosophy is its beauty. Philosophical works contain beautiful ideas, arguments...

I have a new draft paper out! " Repetition and Value in an Infinite Cosmos " -- forthcoming in Stephen Hetherington, Extreme Phil...

guest post by  Nick Riggle Philosophy is a famously rigid and complex discipline full of daunting and difficult prose. As a sign of this...

Recent "illusionists", such as Keith Frankish and Francois Kammerer , deny that consciousness exists.  If that sounds so obviou...

guest post by Nick Riggle Some things just go together. Medjool dates and salted cashews. Hot pink and cyan. Unagi and oloroso. Sunshine a...

According to  consequentialism , we should act to maximize good consequences. According to  longtermism , we should act to benefit the long-...

guest post by  Nick Riggle Sexiness can seem straightforward. Everyone knows what it’s like to want and respond to it—in oneself, in other...