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all original (real) materialists are full-on realists about consciousness
Claude is perhaps too nice to one. I thought, even so, that some might be interested in this conversation—including those who think that you have to believe in an immaterial soul in order to believe in an afterlife.
GS What did Richard Ove...
Is Eeyore a Zen master?
Held for the 63rd time in Austin, TX. Trigger for an old acerbic review of The Tao of Pooh.
The how of who Galen Strawson
review of The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Times Literary Supplement November 26, 1982 (Issue 4156, p. 1307)
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On the Logical Indeterminacy of a Free Choice
Donald MacKay, who was a friend of Alan Turing (they were both members of the Ratio Club), thinks that it is not only misguided (a very basic mistake), but also immoral, to regard physical indeterminacy as essential for free will.
“… I wil...
Consciousness
This review was published in issue number 549 of The Literary Review, March 2026 (pp. 41–42).
“Something Like It”
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness By Michael Pollan (Allen Lane 320pp £25)
The philosophy of mind, as the philo...
Correcting Claude?
Last night I opened Claude for the first time, and asked about the previous post on this substack.
GS: What do you think of this argument posted by Galen Strawson on substack?
“Most people who have heard of David Hume think he said somet...
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