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Sweet Rationalism publishes falsification-first essays that continue Daniel Dennett’s naturalization project by replacing metaphysical “skyhooks” with testable, constraint-grounded explanations of mind, meaning, and agency.

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The Pattern Which Connects: What Persists Is What Constrains

Prologue: The Question That Would Not Stay Answered

In 1979, the year I was born, Gregory Bateson published Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity and posed a question that would haunt systems theory, cybernetics, and philosophy of mind fo...

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Consciousness Naturalized: A Falsifiable Substrate-Agnostic Consciousness Theory

A Substrate-Agnostic Account of Mind, Experience, and Perspective Grounded in 13.8 Billion Years of What Actually Survives

“A difference only ‘makes a difference’ if it can persist long enough to constrain what comes next. Everything else...

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How Panpsychism Avoids Being Wrong (A Quick Primer)

The Retreat Protocol and the usefulness of the Hard Problem of Consciousness


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Panpsychism avoids falsification by shifting explanatory registers whenever empirical constraints are applied. It remains stable under crit...

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The Physicalism-Panpsychism False Dichotomy and Organizational Closure as the Falsifiable Third Option

The Physicalism-Panpsychism False Dichotomy and Organizational Closure as the Falsifiable Third Option

Misplaced Concreteness, Misplaced Falsifiability: Matthew David Segall, Deivon Drago, and the Differential Loss-Condition Test

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Reasoning Is a Dissipative Strange Loop

Note: This is a brief illustration of the faslsifiable naturalized epistimology and AI reasoning framework I am developing at https://www.sweetrationalism.com, any critique, collaborations, corrections, expansions, or comments welcome...
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