Jon Galloway has a post titled “Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle“, where he argues that we should be thankful for every second we have, and backs it up with three observations:
The fact the you are alive is utterly improbable in the grand scheme of things. Given what we think we know about evolution, the probability of [...]
Excellent book. I’m glad I didn’t get turned away by the materialist reductionism at the beginning. Here is a summary:
Materialist Views
Chris Nunn is Associate Editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and researcher and practitioner in the field. He begins his book by giving a survey of what is known about consciousness. He covers biology, [...]
A big “thank you” to whichever reader recommended I read “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”! The recommendation was made in comments to another post 2 years ago, and I only recently got around to reading it. In fact, I got annoyed with it at first, and put it down to finish a couple of other books. [...]