Peter, I write under Citizenschallenge·Aug 9Earth-centrist considers Nagel’s essay, “The Core of ‘Mind and Cosmos’”This examination is a continuation of my private learning project struggling to make sense out of Chalmer’s so-called Hard Problem and the…
misha bhatt·Apr 16Mythos and the Bat Question Nobody Can AnswerI’ve been reading through Anthropic’s 244-page system card for Mythos, their most powerful model to date, and I keep coming back to one…
Peter, I write under Citizenschallenge·Mar 8Considering Jack Maden’s essay regarding Nagel’s Bat.Qualia is the experience of the living “Moment of Now” coursing from your senses, through your body’s bio-chemo-electical pathways &…A response icon2A response icon2
Paul Austin Murphy·Dec 30, 2025How To Achieve the Objective View From NowhereThe following essay is a response to Thomas Nagel’s paper ‘Subjective and Objective’. (Nagel later wrote a book called The View From…A response icon7A response icon7
Anushka Rao·Dec 23, 2025What Is It Like to Be a Bat?There are two kinds of arrogance we rarely separate. One is certainty: the belief that we already know what the world is. The other is…
Paul Austin Murphy·Dec 22, 2025Thomas Nagel on Panpsychism in 1979The recent embrace of panpsychism in certain analytic-philosophy circles is said to have begun with — or, more correctly, to have been…A response icon5A response icon5
Bill Giannakopoulos·Sep 25, 2025We Are Closer to Thomas Nagel’s Bat Than We Realize: Dual Kernel Theory and the Rhythms of…A new Nature study on bat hippocampal replay shows that consciousness may be scaffolded by species-specific rhythms — wing-beats, theta…
Love Your Shelf·Jul 29, 2025A First Look At Philosophy: What Does It All Mean?As I try to gain a deeper understanding of the subject of philosophy, this summer I picked a relatively introductory book to help me dip my…
Nick Nielsen·Jun 6, 2025Philosophy of Mind in an Age of TechnologyThe View from Oregon — 341: Friday 16 May 2025
Shane Baker·May 10, 2025Inhuman Ethics, Part 3: The Allusive SelfIn my previous article, I examined how the habit of human exceptionalism — and the concomitant and normalized mental habit of feeling your…
