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Lives at: http://machineintheshell.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-it-is-like-to-be-bat-in.html --- As you might suspect from my somewhat juvenile humor in titling this essay, I shall address and, to my satisfaction, rebut the core arguments of Thomas Nagel's essay, "What is it like to be a bat?" (availab...

Thus, on Kant’s view, the most fundamental laws of nature, like the truths of mathematics, are knowable precisely because they make no effort to describe the world as it really is but rather prescribe the structure of the world as we experience it. By applying the pure forms of sensible intuition a...

Has anyone considered that they might be destroying this timeline, "killing" the people who live on it, particularly those who would not be born on the new worldline? And for that matter, literally destroying the lives of the people of this timeline, whatever they've accomplished, whatever they've a...

Apart from evidence which borders on certainty that this is not a deterministic universe, I see no reason to agree with this: It seems to me that it would be a bit of a miracle if it turned out that we lived in a universe whose initial state and causal laws were such that they gave rise to conscious...