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Published on June 22, 2026 1:42 AM GMT What the average human understands continues to drastically increase. Humans today know more than the average human fifty years ago. This is because of inventions like the web, which give us access to most of the knowledge available to humans instantaneously. A new age of epistemology has begun with AI, in that AI-generated summaries continue this trend of g…

Background Argument Consider how does physicalism make sense of the color red. There are actually three different things: The physical stimulus: light around 650 nm. The represented external ...

A groundbreaking theory put forward by researchers suggests that conscious experience may not be limited to biological organisms made of flesh and blood. Professor Eric Schwitzgebel from the University of California and Dr Jeremy Pober of the University of Lisbon have developed what they call the 'Copernican Principle of Consciousness'. Their proposal argues that awareness is not an exclusive tra…

Are science and religion enemies or allies? I recorded this debate 14 years ago, and the question has only gotten sharper. Lincoln Cannon is a software engineer with degrees in philosophy and business. He is also president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. So when he argues that science and religion are complementary, he is not […]

The Inamori Foundation today announced experimental multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson to receive the 2026 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

What are the characteristics of someone who should pursue a major in philosophy? Personally, I've spent roughly a year taking mathematics and physics courses, but generally don't find myself getting ...

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The philosophy the SpaceX IPO stands for is trying to normalise the idea that what is true is only a function of who possesses the force required to assert it

Consciousness beyond penrose quantum microtubules?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAADcXNX8BNm6vE2wHF7V91czmcuYXcuPHhY4. 🧠⚛️ Beyond Penrose: Can Consciousness Be Derived from Geometry? For more than 30 years, Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff proposed that consciousness emerges through Objective Reduction (OR) inside neuronal microtubules. Penrose’s key equation is remark…

University of California, Riverside’s Professor Eric Schwitzgebel and University of Lisbon postdoctoral researcher Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is substrate flexible, meaning it can arise not just in the biological tissue we find on Earth, but potentially in radically different physical materials found elsewhere in the cosmos. The post Consciousness is Not Exclusive to Earth’s Biology, P…

I am developing a position in relational ontology and want to identify where the argument succeeds or fails. The Argument Most accounts of identity assume that things possess intrinsic natures first ...

The Analytic Retreat from Reality — Analytic philosophy has been the hegemonic form of academic philosophy in the English-speaking world for the better part of a century. It prides itself on clarity, logical rigor, and the precise analysis of

A conversation with a philosopher about extraterrestrial and machine minds The post Aliens Probably Have Consciousness appeared first on Nautilus .

On Feeling: The Resonant Field of Time is a lyric-philosophical essay in the ongoing On —ing series. Writing from the first person and then deliberately stepping back from it, the essay treats feeling not as private sentiment but as a mode of perception — a way of registering what the author calls the resonant field of time, the felt pattern that binds human lives into a "greater flow." It moves …

AI safety, risk, and governance are becoming global agenda items, but the intensification of governance activity does not automatically clarify the object of risk. When different fields say that they seek to protect “humanity,” they implicitly point to preferences, lives, social order, or species continuity—concepts that are not mutually compatible. As a result, risk identification continually sl…

Martin Buber’s main concern in I and Thou is how we can come to address and be addressed by the living God as our eternal You. According to Buber, we can address and be addressed by God as our eternal You vis-à-vis each other in willing to encounter each other as You, in believing in our own individual reality as standing apart from each other within the context of a religious destiny, and in bei…

Baptism and purgatory mark two entrances in the journey of a single self. The first, through water, opens the temporal succession; the second, through fire, opens eternal life. Drawing on the Gaitan Topology, this essay interprets both as threshold operations in the transformation of the same continuous person. The first sin and original sin are examined as one structural reality under two descri…

On Creating is a lyric-philosophical essay on the act of making and on what survives it. It opens by refusing the idea that becoming "aligned in time" makes a person perfect or separate: the author remains, at forty-two, the same human shaped by his environment, seated between his mistakes and his successes. From there it turns to vocation — a late-life return to study at Maharishi International …

Abstract This paper employs the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology (LYGC) as its critical framework to conduct a systematic, philosophicaly rigorous analysis of the core propositions advanced by six Eastern and Western thinkers — Descartes, Wang Yangming, Kant, Zhang Zai, Marx, and Mao Zedong — revealing their shared deep structure: anthropocentrism (Anthropocentrism). The central argument is that this p…

_Journal of Material Sciences and Engineering Technology_ 2025 ((3)):1-6. 2025Reasoning is a necessary condition of philosophy. And inertia is shown to be characterized by continuity, which is a necessary condition for reasoning in reality. There is continuity between truth and the corresponding objective things, which has always been an absence in philosophy. It is precisely because of this abse…