Skeptophilia

I have a problem with how people use the word miracle . The dictionary definition is "a surprising and welcome event that is not explic...

I've written here before about the two basic camps when it comes to the possibility of a sentient artificial intelligence. The first is ...

In the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation  called "Phantasms," the android Commander Data continues to pursue his lifelong ...

You may recall that a couple of days ago, in my post on mental maps, I mentioned that the contention of some neuroscientists is that conscio...

We're all so familiar with our own mental internal state that it's interesting to consider (1) that not everyone has the same sort o...

I can say with some level of confidence that I'm nowhere near smart enough to be a philosopher.  Or, honestly, even to read most philos...

In today's episode of Confirmation-Bias-"R"-Us, we have: an odd observation about stellar velocities proving that the entire u...

Like most of us, I have a constant narrator in my head. My narrator isn't nearly as sensible and coherent as the one Will Ferrell'...