Ian Wardell: Philosophical Thoughts

Does the thesis that the brain produces the mind cohere well with our overall background knowledge?   In the book The Myth of an Afterlif...

I recently read the following article by Sean Carroll who is a theoretical physicist.  In it he says:   If these mental properties aff...

Introduction I want to make it clear at the outset that when I refer to consciousness, I’m primarily thinking about qualia in its br...

5/11/2019 Edited to add: For an expanded and superior consideration of this issue, see my  A Causal Consciousness, Free Will, and Dualism . ...

Is helpful to distinguish between the self and its experiences. What is the self? I suggest it is that underlying reality making one the ver...

The philosopher Stephen Law has recently written an article entitled: Why are we humans so prone to believing spooky nonsense? The beginni...

Modern skeptics of the paranormal often appeal to a quote made by the late Carl Sagan that  “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evi...

This is a chart of my weight since the 23rd of August 2012 until around a week ago.  You'll notice 2 sharp drops in my weight, one o...

I want here to add a little on what I said in a previous blog entry: A ridiculous conception of God . Let's remind ourselves of the ...