On Medium: The Limbo from the Labyrinth: Consciousness and the Brain

Read on for an explanation of how subjectivity or consciousness (qualia) arises from the objective, physical world.

On Medium: Secular versus Religious Enlightenment

Here's a lengthy dialogue I had with a monistic mystic on the nature of enlightenment and God. Should enlightenment be secular or religious? Should we be traditional mystics or cosmicist pantheists? Should the sage show compassion or transhuman amorality? Why would God create anything?

On Medium: Godless Honour and the Tragedy of Art

Continuing a series on secular values, this article is on whether art can redeem an existentially absurd life, despite art's trivialization due to its proliferation in digital form on the internet and social media.

On Medium: The Nightmare of God

Read on to discover the nightmare at the root of the world's major religions, the hell of being God that would trigger his creation of universes and of organic vessels as so many escape-hatches into divine ignorance, which saints, messiahs, and mystics spoil to complete the satanic irony of enlightenment.

On Medium: Top Three Criticisms of Atheism

Continuing my series on the top three criticisms of this or of that, here's one on atheism. Hint: among those three isn't the claim that theism can be proven true. 

On Medium: Godless Honour and the Pursuit of Pleasure

Here's another article in my series that critiques some major values of secular humanism. If happiness is selfish and sex is foolish, is comedy the most worthy pleasure?

On Medium: The Cults of Scientism in Philosophy and Economics

This article is about the paradox of the secular cults of scientism, namely logical positivism and neoclassical economics.

On Medium: Godless Honour and the Trap of Empowerment

This article continues my series on godless honour and the values of secular humanism. Is there an enlightened way to conquer nature and people?

On Medium: Trump's Inept Totalitarianism

This article explains that the silver lining of American individualism and of Trump's narcissism is that Trump's anti-presidency can only humiliate the country, not wreak a totalitarian catastrophe.

On Medium: Godless Honour and the Descent of Reason

This article is part of a series on how to achieve godless honour. When science and philosophy confront an absurd, inhuman, irrational world, the pair undermines our grandiose boasts about our progress and inherent dignity.