Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms

Was the Grand Canyon Born from an Ancient Lake Spillover?

Why bother with plausible deniability?

Conspiracy in the White House

Today in Supreme Court History: April 17, 1978

'Blue Power' and the Rise of Police Union Politics

Open Thread

William James on the Psychology of Habit

Congress Declines Again To Rein in Trump's Iran War

A European Populist Defends an American Pope

$5K Sanctions for "Egregious, Repeated, and Ongoing" AI Hallucinations in Self-Represented Litigant's Filings

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Defending Private Property

Etzel Cardeña – Theories of Consciousness

On algorithms, life, and learning

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are

The “Hard Problem Of Consciousness” Is Actually Easy

Dueling AI agents could reveal keys to restoring consciousness

Despite science's efforts, consciousness isn't quantifiable. The hard problem remains stubbornly hard, but reading poetry may help

Stop Defending Bari Weiss

What The AI Consciousness Question Conceals

Science and seeking. Participation in mainstream religions has plummeted. The study of consciousness has exploded. Coincidence?