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  I used to think that conspiratorial thinking was, at bottom, a failure to understand emergence. This did not mean that I thought powerfu...

  The Agentic Revolution The weakest argument against AI is that it “doesn’t really think.” That line is tired. It sounds less like phil...

  Philosophy has long recognized that the concepts through which we understand reality are not always neutral. Sometimes they illuminate the...

On self-censorship, failed recovery, and the body’s veto power There is a peculiar kind of laughter that seems to reveal a temporary conflic...

   One of the strangest features of quantum mechanics is the appearance of discrete events where our classical imagination expects continuit...

  Evolution does not separate assets from bugs as cleanly as we do. A trait can be useful at one scale and disastrous at another. The rela...

  A biological device built for uptime, not closure. There is a difference between closure, forgetting, and termination. Take the stupides...