I recently finished Carlo Rovelli's most recent book, Helgoland, and greatly enjoyed it. The core of the book is about the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, which he has helped…
I recently read Beyond Biocentrism by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman. It's a book that kept popping up in recent years so I finally checked it out from the public…
I was reading John Heil's (fairly brief) discussion of idealism in his philosophy of mind book. It's an interesting read because he spends most of the time saying that the…
I was recently listening to this great discussion on consciousness between Philip Goff and Richard Brown, and when they got to a discussion of conceivability arguments (e.g. zombie conceivability), Goff…
I posted yesterday on the question of whether idealism requires an external agent, a claim made by the philosopher Stathis Psillos. The discussion on Twitter continued today. His comments didn't…
I thought this was an interesting but odd tweet by the philosopher Stathis Psillos: https://twitter.com/StathisPsillos/status/1169913170779136000 I'm not sure whether he means ontological idealism (the ultimate foundations of reality are mental)…
I posted a couple of times recently about the Knowledge Argument (KA). In the first, I summarized my view as follows: 1. I’m not convinced this argument refutes physicalism.2. I…
Modern science struggles to make sense of consciousness. What would a coherent materialist / physicalist model of phenomenal consciousness look like? How can our current scientific methods explain how we…
Friday's post "Many Worlds and Occam's Razor" generated a lot of good discussion on Twitter over the weekend, with contributions from Philip Ball, Sabine Hossenfelder, Jim Baggott, and many others.…
One of the common objections to the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics is to invoke Occam's Razor ("Entities should not be multipled without necessity.") and to say that…
