Philosophical Speculations

Sam Harris: Final Thoughts on Free Will

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What lawyer wouldn't defend the legal status quo?

Sub-280 characters and a meme. It's happening, slowly.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 3421000804
I'll post a summary if I see a good one. I'm curious about the evolutionary basis of brain dimorphism.

I think BK's arguments address pancomputationalism, but that is different from the simulation argument that states that it's not the entirety of reality that is reduced to a computational machine (including the consciousness itself), but only the phenomenal content of our experience of the "wo...

A classic:

A remarkable aspect of DID is that subjects split "in software" with no apparent damage to "hardware", unlike split brains.

Identity cosmopsychism is my default position because it elegantly resolves all ancient philosophical conundrums. It's possible there's another metaphysical solution I could compare aesthetically, but unlikely. This sounds a lot like Ramana Maharshi's answer to the question of how we should treat o...

Modern neuroscience articles would be more welcome without always saying they invalidate idealism/panpsychism, or being lazy attempts to crowdsource analysis.

Identity cosmopsychism is my default position because it elegantly resolves all ancient philosophical conundrums. It's possible there's another metaphysical solution I could compare aesthetically, but unlikely.

Against BK's published idealism variant, cosmic fine-tuning and inexplicable disassociation.