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Reflections on Time - Infinity     New

My First Book - The Philosophy of Reality

Evolution from a Metaphysical Perspective

Time and Its Three Tenses

Exploring Moral Relativism

Is Death Natural?

Creating the Past: The Paradox of Nostalgia

The Possible, the Virtual, and Freedom

Existential Reflections: The Shadow Side of Human Existence (3)

Existential Reflections: The Shadow Side of Human Existence (2)

Existential Reflections: The Shadow Side of Human Existence (1)

Know Thyself

The Irreconcilability of Death

Concealment in Art and Life

The Being of History

Nothingness - Four Perspectives

Time in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty

The Metaphysics of Da-sein

Taking a God's Eye View

The Delusion of Consciousness

Brains in Vats

Moving Beyond the Absurd

Demystifying Heidegger's Beyng

Rethinking Consciousness

Towards a Theory of Consciousness - Henri Bergson

The Qualia Delusion

Neurophilosophy

Zeno's Paradoxes - The Stationary Arrow

On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

The Value of Philosophy

Of Muses and Gods

What Do Physics Theories Describe?

Blindsight (4) - The Chinese Room Argument

A Life without Regrets

Blindsight (3) - Personal Identity and Artificial Enhancements    

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Critical Review of David Bentley Hart's The Experience of God

The Simulation Argument

Blindsight (2) - The Brain and Consciousness

Utilitarianism's Repugnant Conclusion

Blindsight (1) - Consciousness as Impediment / Life in a VR Simulation

CosmicSkeptic on Objective Morality (2): Pleasure and Morality

CosmicSkeptic on Objective Morality (1): Freewill

A Few Thoughts on Immigration    

Without God Everything is Permitted - Revisited    

Our Ambiguous Relation to Suffering

From Heidegger to Sartre - A Brief Comparison

To Be Is To Be Perceived - George Berkeley

Dan Dennett - Self as Centre of Narrative Gravity

Is Death a Loss?

Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals

The Role of Value in Musical Preference

Existential Uncertainty

Marx's Alienation - An Existentialist Perspective

Philosophy and Reality

Mind Upload

The Narrative Self

Are Men and Women Different by Nature? - Mill vs. Fitzjames Stephens

In Search of Reality - Trust the Maths

In Search of Reality - It's all just Particles

A Case Study in Personal Identity: Altered Carbon

John Locke on Personal Identity

Psychedelics - The Self and the Real

Sartre's In-itself-for-itself and Buddhism

Axiological Asymmetry and Anti-Natalism (Revised)

Reality Checking AI (5/5) - Safety and Digital Gods

Reality Checking AI (4/5) - The Control Problem and Self-Replication

Reality Checking AI (3/5) - Consciousness

Reality Checking AI (2/5) - Intelligence

Reality Checking AI (1/5) - Brains and Computers

Reasons, Genes, and Misanthropes

Axiological Asymmetry and Anti-Natalism

What is 'World'?

Is Buddhism True?

The Ethics of Vegetarianism

Arrival - The Short Story and the Movie

Freewill - Brain Tumours all the Way Down

An Argument Against Physical Determinism

The Self and Enlightenment in Buddhism - A Critical Discussion

A Few Problems with Utilitarianism

Freewill by Sam Harris - An Absurd Being Commentary

Freewill by Sam Harris - An Absurd Being Review

Free by Alfred Mele - An Absurd Being Review

Bad Faith and Other Commonly Misunderstood 'Sartrean' Ideas

Materialism - The Unlikely Hypothesis

Buddhism and the Supernatural

Polls and Birth Rates and Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

The Rise of the Far Right

Sweden - Bearing the Brunt of Rightwing Rhetoric

Humans - Are We Still Evolving?

The Meaning of Life

Will the West be Muslim by 2050?

Europe's Migrant Crisis

Homosexual Marriage

Hypnosis - The Ins and Outs

My Two Cents on the Harris/Aslan Debate

Fareed Zakaria Interviews Sam Harris

The Secular Defenders of Islam

Primer (the movie) Explanation

Why Modern Christian Myths Seem So Plausible

What is Truth? (A Preliminary Discussion)

Reflections on Interstellar

Without God, Everything Would be Permitted 2

Without God, Everything Would be Permitted 1

Freewill vs. Determinism (An Incompatibilist Summary)

Time Travel Paradoxes

Which Came First - The Chicken or the Egg?

The Mirror Puzzle

It's Just a Theory... or is it?

Five Reasons Why Quantum Weirdness is Aptly Named