Author: Denyse O’Leary
Why Is the 1 Percent Myth So Beloved?
When a belief conflicts with common sense present-day reality, it is usually upholding an irrational value.
Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious
To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real.
A Conscious Universe?
Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail.
Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief
The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t.
What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness
What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do.