Panpsychism offers an attractive alternative solution: Consciousness is a fundamental feature of physical matter; every ...

As the (adapted) saying goes, “everyone wants to be Trad until it’s time to do Trad shit.” I write philosophy of a practical ...

This dominance by appearance is part of Crowdism, which is how human individualists working together adopt a collectivist ...

It turns out that we can see this most clearly with AI/LLM, which is shaping us as much as we are shaping it. Specifically, ...

Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is ...

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...

Religions never give you proof. You have to take a leap of faith. If you had proof, you would no longer be obeying because ...

The resurgence of the r-word is symptomatic of a graver problem — the “apparent death of empathy,” said Adrienne Massanari, ...

Means-over-ends thinking begins with this desire to morally/emotionally exclude certain methods because we fear them, like ...

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

In Southern cities, people have a culture that emphasizes fairness including ensuring that your group does not get ...

For those who enjoy a good lively discussion, I was on the Necropolis AD podcast episode DEATH TO POSEURS this morning ...