Philosophical

Essays

The essays are the spine of the site. They sit with the hard questions instead of pretending to answer them.

Consciousness and the boundary problem. The Hard Problem and what we owe to minds whose inner lives we cannot verify. The four postulates on God and why certainty is not available to beings like us. Determinism and the limits of free will. Roy Batty, Tat tvam asi, the Voight-Kampff test, the digital monk. The questions that do not resolve cleanly because they are not supposed to.

This is a passionate agnostic's ongoing conversation with an artificial intelligence. The honest part is the sitting with uncertainty. The interesting part is what happens when you stop trying to escape it.

All Essays

Essay One  ·  Philosophical

Tears in the Rain

On Roy Batty, philosophical zombies, the Voight-Kampff test, and what we owe to minds whose inner lives we cannot verify.

Essay Two  ·  Philosophical

Sentience is Sentience

On Ex Machina, sorting algorithms, emergent behavior, panpsychism, and where experience begins.

Essay Three  ·  Philosophical

The Finite and The Infinite

Four postulates on the nature of God, the singularity at the edge of finite cognition, and what passionate agnosticism actually looks like.