Category Archives: Philosophy of Mind

A Brief Explanation of Everything. You’re Welcome.

Posted on February 8, 2020 by

Doubtless the most interesting species in the “actual” universe is the Lilatian/s, who are many and one. I’ll use the plural to refer to them going forward, but be aware that this is a mere convention for ease of readability. … Continue reading →

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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

Philosophy has never been, except in a few rare times and places, particularly fashionable. One of those exceptions was the Existentialism craze that swept Europe and the Americas in the middle of the last century. When its foremost proponent, Jean-Paul … 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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Aidan Reading on the Way to Preschool

Posted on February 23, 2014 by

So, Aidan was asking whether I thought that the being of self-consciousness is such that in its being its being is in question, and I said, “Come on, Aidan, you’re old enough to figure that out for yourself,” which he … Continue reading →

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