On Medium: Do Minds Relate Miraculously to the World?

Here's an article that disposes of a frivolous argument for God’s existence, based on the supposed mystery of psychophysical harmony.

On Medium: Exploits of the Enlightened Supervillain

Read on about the paradoxes of rational enlightenment and selfish progress.

On Medium: The Rapture of Tourette Syndrome

Read on about the outrage at the Bafta Awards and the revelation of coprolalia.

On Medium: Does the Desire for God Show that God is Real?

Here's a dialogue on whether the strangeness of subjective experience indicates that reality is exactly as strange as God.

On Medium: The Mirage of Facts in a Desert of Storytelling

Read on about the question of what’s more fundamental, storytelling or objective knowledge, and whether the possibility of objective truth is the deepest fiction.

On Medium: Are We Ever Awake and Not Daydreaming?

Here's an article about the cultural dreams of billions of sleepwalkers, and what it means psychologically and socially for life to be dreamlike.

On Medium: Psychiatrists Don’t Dictate Who’s Mentally Healthy

Read on about social conformity, the psychiatric struggle to define “mental disorder,” and the philosophical judgment of social norms.

On Medium: Hypocrisy is Inescapable for Internally Divided Brains

Read on about the cognitive and social causes of hypocrisy and the quixotic quest for flawless consistency.

On Medium: The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism

Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike impersonal animals, inevitably experience alienation.

On Medium: Don’t Insult the Worldview that’s Home to My Mind

Here's an article about individualism, the futile debate between theists and atheists, and why we attach ourselves to our worldviews.

On Medium: Are We Many or One?

Read on for a dialogue on whether we're individual minds, or there's a single mind underlying our personal identities, and the pantheistic implications of computational thought experiments.

On Medium: The War on the Universe’s Strangeness

Here's an article about how the brain develops cultural strategies such as religion for avoiding the implications of our inhuman, natural foundations.

On Medium: Civility as the Ghost in our Myriad Machines

Here's an article about how the apparent ghostliness of qualia transfers to the normativity of the cultural programs that run the civilized megamachine. 

On Medium: Consciousness is Nature’s Warning that Living Things are Insurgents

Read on about the brain's relevance to the hard problem of consciousness, the uncanny valley, why we’re not all zombies, and life's rebellion against nature.

On Medium: Qualia, Alienation, and the Brain’s Mental Simulations

Read on for a critique of Joscha Bach’s computational theory of consciousness that emphasizing the role of alienation from physical reality.

On Medium: Consciousness and the Transformation of Nature

Here's an article about the role of qualia in nature’s taming of itself, or how consciousness acts as an alienating limbo that motivates degrees of terraforming.

On Medium: The Mental Abyss Dividing Us from Nature

Here's an article about the cosmic and mental abysses that make nonsense of the mystical sentiment that everything is united.

On Medium: Alienated Intellectuals aren’t Fully Alive

Read on about the extravert’s rejoinder to elitist introverts, which is that the introvert occupies a deathly state that isn't fully committed to life's routines.

On Medium: Social Media and the Triumph of Extraverted Shallowness

Here's an article about how introspection isn’t to blame for the rise of parasocial relationships since there's more to introversion than being alone.

On Medium: When Philosophers and Scientists Squabble about the Meaning Crisis

Read on about how John Vervaeke minimizes the philosophical reasons for alienation, in taking the meaning crisis to be a problem mainly for psychologists and therapists.