I have, and I believe you have too. In this post I will explore some of the issues around gender. This will mainly be about gender in general, but I will touch on transgender topics at times and at the end. We all do gender, and we are all gendered. I will try to explain … More Have You Been Gendered?
The short answer is no one knows. But, I think that we do not for a variety of reasons, which I will attempt to spell out in this post. I have hesitated on writing a piece on this question; although, I have touched on it in a number of posts¹ prior to this one. … More Do We Think in Language?
Does this question seem weird? What can philosophy and poetry share or have in common. For one thing they can both utilize metaphors, admittedly in different ways and to express different things. So, is this metaphor—philosophy is poetry—useful in any way? As a starter I decided to look at my definitions of philosophy and poetry … More Is Philosophy Poetry?
In this blog post I intend to layout the basics of my ethical views. I was introduced to moral subjectivism in Richard Carrier’s book Sense and Goodness without God if I remember correctly; however, a search through this book under the term “subjectivism” yielded no results. It could have been in another book of his I … More What is Moral Subjectivism About?
There are two types of artificial intelligence (AI). Strong AI is a research program to get computers to to think like humans (some include consciousness as the goal), and weak AI is to get computers to act smart, doing some tasks that humans perform. Some weak AI programs are called expert systems. Others include making mathematical proofs, … More Is Strong AI Possible?
“The significance, purpose, underlying truth, etc., of something.” – Meaning number one from the Oxford English Dictionary I think that the world or universe does not have any intrinsic meaning attached to it. As a corollary, I think that it is us (humans) that give meaning to our world. In my view the world does … More What Do You Mean?
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