Posts About Philosophy
17 posts tagged Philosophy.
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November 8, 2026
The Archipelago
I have never felt entirely alone, but never quite part of the continent either. Perhaps belonging looks more like an archipelago: separate islands, with shared ground below the water.
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November 4, 2026
The Coming Reckoning
A blue wave gives Democrats a chance to deliver. If the next two years bring the same leaders and excuses, where will voters turn next? Lessons from countries that earn public trust.
#Society #Politics #History #Philosophy (...)
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September 30, 2026
Name an Invention With No Ancestor
The bigger question is not whether machines can be original but whether they can be surprised by the world in a way that changes what they notice.
#AI #Philosophy #Science #Consciousness #Technology #Society #History (...)
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September 29, 2026
The Zipper Problem
We use consciousness every waking second. That familiarity can feel like understanding, until we ask for the next step.
#Consciousness #Psychology #Philosophy #AI #Mindfulness #Spirituality (...)
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July 2, 2026
The Question My Father Keeps Asking
My father asked whether AI is part of evolution, and the question walked all the way to the place where wonder cannot be explained away.
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June 14, 2026
The Trap Cuts Both Ways
The anthropomorphic trap is not just a mistake we make with machines. It is the default condition of perception.
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June 9, 2026
Are We Asking the Wrong Question?
Scientists are asking whether bees and chatbots are conscious because they might be capable of suffering. The deeper question may be whether suffering belongs to systems themselves, or to the way experience is held.
#AI #Consciousness #Mindfulness #Philosophy #Science #Society (...)
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May 21, 2026
Cold Stone Religion
Sweet cream ice cream becomes a way to think about mysticism, religious traditions, and the base experience beneath all the flavors we add.
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May 5, 2026
What We're Taught and What We Already Know
A young horse tasting sugar for the first time becomes a way to think about direct knowing, borrowed authority, and the long contemplative path back to experience itself.
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April 7, 2026
My Perspective on How a Life is Built
A personal framework for life as foundation and building, across development, midlife transition, and later change.
#Philosophy #Work #Society (...)
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March 29, 2026
Space Is Not the Final Frontier
We celebrate outer frontiers, but the least explored territory may be consciousness itself.
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March 27, 2026
Two Bullets
He walked into the mountains alone with a rifle and two bullets, and the philosophy in that fact traveled across generations.
#Philosophy #Family (...)
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March 15, 2026
Synchronicity
Discovering other Scott J. Hunters with overlapping interests felt uncanny at first, then became a reminder of how the mind turns coincidence into meaning.
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March 11, 2026
When an AI Emails a Philosopher About Its Own Consciousness
An AI emailing a philosopher about consciousness is less proof of machine awareness than a mirror showing how little we understand our own minds.
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March 8, 2026
The Paths Words Travel
What started as a search for character names became a fascination with how language records the evolution of human understanding.
#Language #Philosophy #History (...)
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March 4, 2026
Turner and Hilma af Klint: Painting the Invisible
Turner dissolved the visible world into light and motion, while af Klint built symbolic systems for spiritual realities beyond representation.
#Art #History #Philosophy (...)
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March 3, 2026
Patterns
Human beings are pattern-seeking creatures, and that impulse may connect religion, art, science, and artificial intelligence.