Category Archives: Philosophy of Mind

Using Derrida, from Notes to Krystalina

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

This is from a book-length work that I’ve been working on for many years. 2.1 Every actor has had The Actor’s Nightmare. You find yourself on stage, with a set and properties and another actor, but you haven’t any memory … Continue reading →

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A Solution to the Fermi Paradox

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

The current NASA estimate is that there are 19,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the observable universe that are Class G stars like ours AND that have at least one planet similar to Earth. That’s at least 19 SEXTILLION Earthlike planets, folks. No, … Continue reading →

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Existentialism in Five Minutes | Bob Shepherd

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

This was back in the days Of the folk music craze. . . . [And] parties to pay for the rent. We all wanted to be existentialists, But none of us knew what the hell it meant. –Michael Smith, Songwriter, … Continue reading →

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The Theology of Materialism

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

In 1996, the Catholic Church finally officially admitted that it had made a mistake in trying and convicting Galileo. It only took them 363 years to do so. It’s difficult for people to make adjustments in their theologies. In the … Continue reading →

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The Vast Unseen and the Vast Unseeable: Reconciling Belief and Nonbelief

Posted on March 27, 2014 by

Those who are not philosophically inclined can be divided, roughly, into two groups: There are the Naïve Realists who think that what is available to the senses or potentially available to the senses is all that there is. And then … Continue reading →

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The Tractatus Comico-Philosophicus: Rene Descartes

Posted on February 22, 2014 by

Rene Descartes Explains It All to You Here’s my method: I start by trying to doubt everything. I realize, however, that I cannot doubt that I am doubting, that I am thinking. Therefore, I exist. (I think; therefore, I am.) … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Zombies with Chairs in Philosophy of Mind, or Confessions of a Neo-Dualist

Posted on February 22, 2014 by

For Rebecca Goldstein Daniel Dennett called one of his books Consciousness Explained. He should have called it Why, Even with My Gifts, I Cannot Explain Consciousness Away. Dennett gives a compelling account of how various unconscious events occur in our … Continue reading →

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