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Moral courage (and the word ‘like’) can help us grapple with uncertainty.

The strange interactions of Selfhood and Multiplicity

We know, more intimately than anything else, what its like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existent…

A 1991 book by the cognitive philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which he develops a theory of consciousness. The title is, of course, (deliberately) overly ...

The often controversial evolutionary biologist and author on hate mail, J.K. Rowling and death.

While we should all listen—and, more importantly, adopt the intentional stance—conservatives have much more work to do in this respect than liberals.

Harari’s world-view is rife with inconsistencies and confusion. He is admired by the global neoliberal elite not only because he rarely, if ever, criticizes their core assumptions and values, but also because his vision of the future is one which is fully in tune with their own.

Kile Jones explains the differences between these ways of thinking.

Cross-linked news, and information resources about minds

When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura.