We may be approaching a time when the illusion of selfhood is strengthened, not weakened, because we are surrounded by machines enacting it.
essays
Can the works of the Mechanic Muse be put to genuinely human uses?
Singing is not to be understood as an aesthetic sweetener.
Mann understood, almost too well, the allure of tradition and irrationalism, of the poetic and the mystical.
Claude’s confession did not convince me that it was conscious.
AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.
The most creative, innovative, and profound MacIntyre was the one who thought about moral rationality.
As people reflect on the chasm that separates their experience from that of their grandparents, everyone is confused.
Monarchy and its symbols seem to retain an allure that is hard to resist—even if in jest.
The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.