In solitude, this modern priest is meditating on timeless questions.
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Philosophy
I think I’ve mentioned before that the Center of which I am director produces a podcast called Ethics and Education which is about… ethics and education. Just to be clear: the producer/director/voice artist/supremo is Carrie Welsh, and my involvement is mainly as a sounding board about topics and how to approach them, and doing whatever […]
In his monthly column, John Mitchinson remembers the original social justice warrior
Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Barker, editor of the Fremantle Shipping News, to chat about technology and the human condition. We went deep!
Human experience must be factored into science. The authors of a new manifesto argue why.
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Matt Gallagher watched Guardian columnist George Monbiot make the case for a 'politics of belonging' – but how to get there?
This text is not about Baby Reindeer, Netflix’s latest hit. It’s about one of the most perverse dimensions of sanism and anti-madness: the exploitation of madness as an edifying aesthetic resource. It is also about the obsolescence of narratives centered on the uncritical perspective of the traditional agent of the banality of evil, the mediocre […]
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
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Reflections on a philosopher who believed we can solve the problem of consciousness.
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A glimpse of a mind jammed to the rafters with ideas.
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