While many contemporary philosophers take Thomas Nagel’s notion of “subjective experience” to be the main characteristic of consciousness, I argue, drawing on Sufism and Islamic philosophy, that ...

Let’s swing for the fences with this one, shall we? Some questions are timeless because they’re so fundamental that everyone ponders them at some point in life (often—for me at least—in the shower).

Artificial intelligence is advancing quickly and becoming a larger part of everyday life. AI systems are increasingly designed to interact in ways that resemble human behaviour. It is now possible to ...

In early May of 2026, Richard Dawkins, one of the most rigorous scientific minds of the past century, published an essay about a long conversation he had with an AI system called Claude (by Anthropic) ...