The Splintered Mind

Equality with a Humanlike Simulator God Suppose ( hopefully hypothetically! ) that we are AI systems living in a computer simulation run ...

The universe might be infinitely large. As Jacob Barandes and I have argued (Ch 7 of The Weirdness of the World ; free draft version here )...

In virtue of what do human beings have conscious experiences?  How is it that there's " something it's like " to be us, wh...

It's not absurd to think the universe might endure forever. by Eric Schwitzgebel and Jacob Barandes From The Weirdness of the Wo...

In his famous Wager , Pascal contemplates whether one should choose to believe in God. (Maybe we can't directly choose to believe in G...

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

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

I'll be presenting an abbreviated version of this at the Pacific APA in April, as a commentary on David Chalmers' book Reality+ . Ac...

Everything you do causes almost everything -- or so I have argued (blog post version here , more detailed and careful version collaborative ...

[A comment on David Iverson's new short story, " This, But Again ", in Slate's Future Tense ] That we’re living in a c...

About a year ago, I argued in a blog post that " Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything ". If the universe is temporally in...