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What is it like to be a human being?

What is it like to be a human being?

Forget bats, this is Thomas Nagel's forgotten question

Ricky Williamson
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The body is the zero point of the world

The body is the zero point of the world

Evicted from the flesh

Gigla Gonashvili
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The universe is made of desire

The universe is made of desire

Schopenhauer and why denying the will ends the world

David Bather Woods
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Theories are never true, they are only more or less useful

Theories are never true, they are only more or less useful

Everything you believe is wrong

Manuel Delaflor
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African philosophy's challenge to Western reductionism

African philosophy's challenge to Western reductionism

In philosophies like Ubuntu, the whole is more real than its parts

Elvis Imafidon
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The unjust power dynamics of pet ownership

The unjust power dynamics of pet ownership

Should all animals control their own lives?

Richard Healey
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Consciousness breaks from the physical world by keeping the past alive

Consciousness breaks from the physical world by keeping the past alive

The consciousness of time distinguishes mind from matter

Lyu Zhou
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Portraits of Thomas Hobbes on the left and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the right, showcasing their distinct artistic styles and expressions.

Hobbes vs Rousseau: are we inherently evil?

The answer depends on what you think of politics.

Robin Douglass
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Consciousness came before life

The fundamental cause of evolution

Stuart Hameroff
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The universe is made of desire

The universe is made of desire

Schopenhauer and why denying the will ends the world

David Bather Woods
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Reality is not a controlled hallucination

Reality is not a controlled hallucination

Consciousness is not predictive processing

Evan Thompson
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Colorful embroidered artwork depicting a stylized human head with a floral crown, surrounded by birds and vibrant plants against a pink background.

Consciousness may not require a brain

Are plants conscious?

Annaka Harris
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Metaphysics & LanguageArrow Head

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Reality, Closure and the illusion of truth

Science is about invention, not truth

Hilary Lawson
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Reality is a creation of consciousness

Consciousness is the boundary between the self and the world

Karl Friston
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"Following the science" is a dangerous illusion

Truth is personal, but we’ve evolved to pretend it’s not

Pascal Boyer
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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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Truth is deeper than mathematics

Reality is not a number

Joanna Kavenna
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Mind & ReasonArrow Head

consciousness is not fundamental

Consciousness is not fundamental

Consciousness is the foundation of knowledge, not reality

James Cooke
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Consciousness can't be uploaded

Digital immortality is a metaphysical mirage

William Egginton
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The self exists and it is an illusion

Is there a self within consciousness?

Ricky Williamson
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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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Your body thinks as much as your mind

Thinking is embodied, spatial, and outside your head

Barbara Tversky
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Ethics & ReligionArrow Head

The idea of the universal good is dangerous

The idea of the universal good is dangerous

Moral universalism has failed

Tommy J. Curry
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Iris Murdoch and why the West’s spiritual crisis won’t be solved by religion

Transcendence without theism

Miles Leeson
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Humanity is no less superstitious now than in the past

The Big Bang theory, broken mirrors, and other superstitions

Rami Gabriel
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A life fully lived paradoxically reduces the fear of death

Meaning in life leads to less anxiety around dying

Julie Hannan
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There is no good and evil, only better and worse

What Peter Singer gets wrong about morality

Alastair Norcross
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