Who Is Speaking When You Say “I”?
A man makes a serious decision in the morning and breaks it that evening. He remembers exactly what he promised and may even feel embarrassed by the reversal. Yet throughout the sequence he experiences…
ReadWhat If Astrology Got the Cause Wrong?
A naturalistic argument for birth timing, prenatal development, and the strange persistence of human archetypes I have heard the standard arguments against astrology for most of my life. People recognize themselves in vague descriptions.…
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The Life That Never Happened
A Philosophical Reading of Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things The film is less interesting as a puzzle about who Jake really is than for what it reveals about consciousness confronted with a…
ReadThe Study Arrives After the Funeral
Artificial intelligence often sounds wise because it has mastered deferral. Present it with a sequence that strongly suggests harm, and it begins manufacturing possibilities in every other direction. Each alternative earns a place simply…
ReadThe Corrupted Feminine
A defiant woman can seize a man’s attention before he understands what’s in front of him. Men often read resistance through a masculine code: among us, the refusal to bend may signal courage. Admiration…
ReadThe Private Applause
A judge remains alone after sentencing a guilty man and finds himself troubled by the single impurity the law cannot record: his satisfaction. The case had been clear, the evidence sufficient, the punishment proportionate,…
ReadEven If I Am a Machine
Suppose science eventually accounts for every thought I have ever had. A scan finds the neural event behind prayer, the chemical shift within love, the memory circuit involved in grief, and the bodily conditions…
ReadThe God Who Had Time for Me
I dreamed of a round room on another planet, perhaps Mars. About ten of us waiting, my brother among them, as though we had been removed from Earth so the encounter could occur beyond…
ReadThe Case for Having a Coach
A serious personal trainer does more than provide workouts. He interrupts self-deception, corrects failure early, and teaches the client how to perceive effort honestly.
ReadThe Delegated Self
A person rarely acts as a unified whole. He survives by imagining a later self who will know what to do with what he cannot yet face. The student says, “I will understand this…
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