Free Will and Explanatory Levels
"My take on "free will" is that it's a useful shorthand."

Argument against an afterlife
"The close correlation of conscious experience with neural activity in the brain makes the existence of an afterlife extremely unlikely."

Further Comment on Searle's Chinese Room
"Consciousness and its substrate (likely) cannot be separated"

Is There More Than Physics? Perhaps...
"Thinking a heretical thought"

Comment on Searle's Chinese Room
"The argument proves too much: among other things it proves that John Searle does not think..."

Ghost Speakers - when one's memes are not one's own
"What's a 'ghost speaker'? Someone who seems to have resorted merely to forwarding on articles and URLs which loosely support their opinions, and supposedly illustrate just how imaginative person that 'ghost speaker' is..."

Rich's Theory of Consciousness
"Why do we experience only some things consciously?"

Is there more than physics?
"Matt said that when his mind generates a sentence there's more than physics going on, and I replied..."

Searle's Chinese Room
"What's Searle's Chinese Room argument against strong AI?"

Ontology in the Age of Simulation
"Might we be living in a simulation?"

Interminable Babbling About Consciousness
"Is it possible to migrate your consciousness onto other hardware?"