Ian Wardell: Philosophical Thoughts

This is a post I wrote in a discussion board 11 years ago in 2003. There seems to be this universal misconception amongst atheists that th...

How much I actually like a novel seems to bear very little relationship to how much other people like them, at least going by Amazon...

What were the chance of any specific person being born? More specifically, what were the chances of me being born? If we accept the prevai...

I tend to pooh pooh predictions regarding new technology and how it will utterly revolutionise our lives. And it seems to me such predicti...

5/11/2019  Update:  My most recent blog post -- A Causal Consciousness, Free Will, and Dualism -- covers all pertinent issues regarding fre...

If an individual never thinks philosophically, never questions his existence, what the world is about, what justifies certain moral stances ...

Should there be an afterlife I suspect we don't all go to the same place.  I would speculate that the afterlife realm will consist of di...

We very strongly feel the world exists out there independently of us. We feel it is solid, has colours, that sounds are out there and so o...

From an unknown author: One day, two frogs were enjoying the day in the barn when they accidently fell into the farmer's bucket of crea...

An interesting blog entry by someone regarding whether the self actually exists. Can the Chariot take us to the land of no-self? Here is...