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Aware: A Matter of Perspective

The next installment.:So, what is the explanatory target with the mind’s consciousness? What is it we physicalists cannot explain that needs the feels to account for? What, exactly, is missing from any...

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Aware: Dualism and the onus of proof

In which I discuss animal breath… One is often told or reads that the natural assumption of human cultures more or less universally is that humanity is composed of two parts – the body and the spirit....

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Aware: Upload

But, not bit… Why we will never be saved in computers One of the more common posthumanist themes is that we can download ourselves into a computer matrix of some kind (and indeed that we may even be in...

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Aware: Free Will

Physics and neurons, basically Are freewill and determinism incompatible? Is there even a conflict?See my Substack for further information

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Plans

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Aware updates

Oops, I forgot to post links to my latest chapters of Aware on Substack: Desires Morals and Values There are perhaps two chapters and a conclusion to come.

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Kinds of drivers

As a motorcyclist, I am acutely aware of other road users, and some patterns crop up which I am certain is unique to Melbourne, of models driven by those who have no concern for other road users, and...

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A local talk

HPS book celebration at the University of Melbourne

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Aware is finished. Now for something different

So I finished presenting the book Aware on my substack, which will now ferment in my bottom drawer (metaphorically) until it ripens. While that is happening I am preparing to edit some nineteenth...

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On the difference between a people and a nation

A substack notice

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