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**Philosophical horror.** Dr. Lena Hart joins Site-7, a classified facility where "translators" interface with superintelligent AI systems that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. When colleagues break after exposure to recursive …
You share no atoms with your childhood self. Your memories have changed. Your personality has shifted. Your values have evolved. So what makes you the same person?
This is the persistence problem—a question philosophers have wrestled with for …
“Temperature is the average kinetic energy of molecules.”
True. Useful. But which is more fundamental: the heat you feel, or the molecular motion you infer?
On Moral Responsibility argues that modern science commits a profound …
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Lovecraft understood something profound: complete …
Cancer gives you a lot of time to think about suffering—its nature, its purpose (if any), and whether it reveals anything fundamental about reality.
One way to think about suffering: it’s how certain patterns of …
This essay, written in 2012, asks a question that still haunts me: Why do we hold people morally responsible?
People throughout history have believed they belong to a special categorical class: persons. What makes persons special? Their …
A philosophical exploration of free will, determinism, and moral agency. What does it mean to be a moral agent? Can we truly be held responsible for our actions in a deterministic universe?