Here is an index for my now complete series on the metaphysical question of what is the most fundamental aspect of reality, giving my own take on the Cosmological Argument, the Argument from Consciousness, and the Argument from Ethics. MOTIVATION … Continue reading
Putting everything together, I have argued—using plausibility arguments, not strictly deductive proofs—that it is reasonable to believe in a metaphysically ultimate being, and that given the reality of Ethics or Consciousness, it is probable that it is more like a … Continue reading
Having described briefly the bearing of both Ethics and Consciousness on the nature of the fundamental reality, let's ask whether the source of these things would really be the same thing as a god, to whom one could have a … Continue reading
Speaking of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, there's going to be a new Tom Stoppard play about the "Hard Problem". I'm so excited! Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brainscience institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling … Continue reading
It is not surprising that the Laws of Physics don't have anything to say about right and wrong, given that the world they describe is an abstraction from our own. Physics describes the world in one aspect, as a pattern … Continue reading
