Catalytic Narrative

Playground by Richard Powers My rating: 5 of 5 stars He Throws in the Towel I completely missed all the little clues, and had to read the...

Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century’s only plausible metaphysics by Bernardo Kastrup My rating:...

I said I'd stop this. I'm old and I'm tired much of the time. I'm always in pain. Not debilitating pain, but the kind that m...

As you must know by now, gentle reader, it is my burden to convince you that emotions are at the core of what it means to be conscious, even...

Since my Mom just died, and I'm thinking a lot about her, assembling memorabilia, and remembering things, I remember way back when I was...

I have this old car, which isn't old enough to lack the universal connector which throws the codes which tells the mechanic which is the...

I'm not telling you, dear reader, anything you don't already know. I am not a philosopher. People blame me for being one, sometimes,...

Somehow, this puts me in mind of my nephew when he was about five. Our family was together for Thanksgiving, and we were going around the ta...

I've been thinking too.  I just outed myself as a cosmologist, and so I'd better try, in outline form, to sketch out "my" ...