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Consciousness can't be uploaded

Digital immortality is a metaphysical mirage

William Egginton
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Utilitarians are wrong, morality requires treating people unequally

True morality always starts at home

Michael A. Slote
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Languages are social tools, not windows onto reality

There’s no such thing as “languages”

Vuk Vukotić
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The self exists and it is an illusion

Is there a self within consciousness?

Ricky Williamson
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Science is a method, not a worldview

The religious origins of science

John Milbank
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China’s radical philosophy of action, free will, and the self

Free will is a Western problem, Chinese philosophy dissolves it

Brian Bruya
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Hobbes vs Rousseau: are we inherently evil?

The answer depends on what you think of politics.

Robin Douglass
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Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

The Stoics and Existentialists agree on the answer

Skye C. Cleary
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72 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read

From Ancient Greece to Postmodernism.

IAI Editorial
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Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

Quantum mechanics and the organic light of consciousness

Stuart Hameroff
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Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved

The sooner we acknowledge it, the sooner we’ll solve the hard problem of consciousness

Bernardo Kastrup
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Consciousness came before life

The fundamental cause of evolution

Stuart Hameroff
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Metaphysics & LanguageArrow Head

Languages are social tools not windows onto reality

Languages are social tools, not windows onto reality

There’s no such thing as “languages”

Vuk Vukotić
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Truth is deeper than mathematics

Reality is not a number

Joanna Kavenna
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Truth is the most dangerous fantasy our species ever invented

The quest for truth is a prelude to violence

Manuel Delaflor
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Life's mysteries cannot be explained away, they are to be lived

On the human origins and limits of abstract thought

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis
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Don’t despair about being a pessimist

Pessimists can change the world

Ian James Kidd
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Mind & ReasonArrow Head

Consciousness cant be uploaded

Consciousness can't be uploaded

Digital immortality is a metaphysical mirage

William Egginton
Article

The self exists and it is an illusion

Is there a self within consciousness?

Ricky Williamson
Article

China’s radical philosophy of action, free will, and the self

Free will is a Western problem, Chinese philosophy dissolves it

Brian Bruya
Article

Your body thinks as much as your mind

Thinking is embodied, spatial, and outside your head

Barbara Tversky
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Consciousness, cosmology, and the collapse of common sense

Reality is stranger than we can imagine

Eric Schwitzgebel
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Ethics & ReligionArrow Head

morality begins at home

Utilitarians are wrong, morality requires treating people unequally

True morality always starts at home

Michael A. Slote
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Schopenhauer and how to overcome your negativity bias

Why pain stands out more than pleasure

Sam Woolfe
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Against the pursuit of happiness

Why you should not try to be happy

Lorraine Besser
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Humanity’s ancient tribalism is causing its modern problems

You must harness your inner hunter-gatherer

Harvey Whitehouse
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Humans aren't special, and why it matters

Anthropocentrism is a violent philosophy

Timothy Morton
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