Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves. I'm not interested. philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/n... #philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #physics #vampires #immortality #metaphors #death #writing #perception #life

I take aim to soften Meghan Sullivan's Time-Bias assertion: open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #philosophy #blog #podcast #time #bias #future #essay #neutrality #candles #betrayal #mortality

I explain in a blog post how I use AI in my writing. And you? 👉 philosophics.blog/2026/05/11/h... #writing #ai #llms #editing #workflow #philosophy #partnership #authorship #production #support #blog #podcast

I critique a reaction to the content of Corey Taylor's acoustic performance of Snuff to illustrate ontological grammar commitments. philosophics.blog/2026/05/10/s... #Philosophy #music #emotion #mentalhealth #ethics #virtue #perception #snuff #reaction #blog #podcast #psychology #critique #lyrics

A day at the beach to beat tourist season. Cape Cod, Sandwich, USA. Here's a panoramic view. philosophics.blog/2026/05/09/s... #AtlanticOcean #beaches #boardwalk #CapeCod #dunes #fences #marshland #Massachusetts #nature #panorama #photos #sandwich #scenic #blog #tourism #history #usa #water #sand

The Space Between is more than a Dave Matthews song. It's how Romantic writing evolved from contiguous strings. philosophics.blog/2026/05/08/a... #artificialintelligence #books #emdash #fiction #history #language #Latin #blog #podcast #philosophy #punctuation #satire #writing

The problem with the AI-authorship complaint is the complainers, who think everyone thinks as they do. 👉https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-author-did-not-write-this-and #philosophy #writing #authorship #ai #critique #grammar #artificialintelligence #art #creativity #blog #podcast #substack

A new colleague shared his decolonial essay with me. I share this interest, so I read it and wrote a blog post. 👉 philosophics.blog/2026/05/07/t... #philosophy #politics #society #culture #language #morality #colonialism #liberalism #sovereignty #agency #blog #podcast #history

Language is not the bridge. I respond to another Substack post – one I agree with 85 % – but the missing portion is key. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/language-i... #philosophy #language #bridges #communication #ontology #systems #ai #systems #semantics #substack #blog #podcast #essay #writing

Free Speech, Pseudo-Invariance, and the Grammar of Liberal Rights. I've generally been suspicious of free speech for a while, so… philosophics.blog/2026/05/05/f... #philosophy #freespeech #freedom #violence #language #silence #commons #grammar #essay #video #rights #liberalism #video #blog #podcast

I challenge the traditional concept of authorship. Written work has always been a matter of social attribution rather than manual production. philosophics.blog/2026/05/05/t... #philosophy #language #authorship #writing #al #genai #artificialintelligence #collaboration #blog #podcast #books

I explore the psychological necessity of routine and domestic labour for the elderly as a means of maintaining dignity and purpose. philosophics.blog/2026/05/02/o... #philosophy #psychology #care #blog #podcast #ageing #humanism #meaning #feminism #ritual #retirement #compassion #writing

I hired Claude to articulate my thoughts on the self-improvement industry… philosophics.blog/2026/05/01/t... …and, frankly, LinkedIn and pop psychology. #philosophy #psychology #blog #podcast #selfhelp #language #power #reason #rhetoric #personadevelopment #bollocks #vulnerability #writing #reading

A novella about time and memory. philosophics.blog/2026/04/30/n... I hear that people no longer read, don't read novellas, and have short attention spans. #philosophy #book #time #history #memory #writing #reading #publishing #author #fiction #novella #blog #podcast

The Architecture of Willing is not yet complete, but I wanted to lock in my choice of colour: a dark aubergine-violet. philosophics.blog/2026/04/29/a... I hope to release it in May 2026, gods willing—details to follow.

I'm not sure the gender debate is all that these days with the distraction factory in DC; nonetheless, I've been reading Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #philosophy #language #writing #blog #podcast #identity #women #feminism #socialontology #legibility #substack

Civilisations die from suicide, not murder. – Arnold J Toynbee #qotd #quote #meme #history #writing #progress #civilisation #society #death #crows #corvids #birds #satire #philosophy #mood #mondayMotivation

NotebookLM summary of an early draft of Chapter 1, an introductory chapter: Authoring Displacement and the Cake Grammar or some such. Have a listen. philosophics.blog/2026/04/25/t... #philosophy #language #will #analog #spotify #blog #podcast #book #monograph #critique #metaphor #perspective #ego

In this second of two essays, I discuss the immorality of property, even deeper than the first post yesterday. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/before-the... #philosophy #language #ontology #blog #podcast #property #rights #justification #metaphysics #consciousness #ethics #identity #essay #substack

I've argued that property rights are immoral. Now, I've shared a pair of posts that argue deeper. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-fence-... #Philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #language #ontology #criticaltheory #anarchism #politicaleconomy #economics #locke #rousseau #property

In this Substack, I reveal the sleight of hand psychologists use to domesticate ideas from philosophy and other disciplines by critiquing an essay on nihilism and Anhedonia. open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #Nihilism #Psychology #Philosophy #blog #podcast #essay #reading #writing #pathology

James Ladyman and I agree that language is a fundamental impediment to understanding – and this includes notions of reality. open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #philosophy #blog #podcast #language #science #reality #perception #metaphysics #physics #ontology #realism #epistemology #books

An interaction in Chapter 2 of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day inspired me to write a #Substack article on #metaphors we may not consider to be metaphors. I focus on #professionalism and #honour. open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #philosophy #language #books #reading #writing #blog #podcast

🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking. It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour. philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/d... #philosophy #economics #psychology #efficiency #dating #evaluation #romance #preferences #blog #podcast

A follower asked me to comment on a Philosophize This! segment on a couple of books he published after After Virtue, and so I did. philosophics.blog/2026/04/15/r... #pilodsophy #psychology #critique #blog #video #podcast #society #culture #morality #ethics #books

I read the opening chapter of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day through the lens of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis. philosophics.blog/2026/04/14/t... #philosophy #literature #language #grammar #aesthetics #beauty #butler #ishiguro #reading #writing #critique #ontology #blog #podcast #analysis

Just sharing a book cover design candidate in a blog post. philosophics.blog/2026/04/13/t... I'll be releasing it later this month. #books #writing #cover #art #design #minimalism #novella #philosophy

A colleague shared a post today that inspired this, let's say, response. philosophics.blog/2026/04/12/t... #blog #podcast #philosophy #language #LLMs#artificialintelligence #virtuesignalling #culture #gatekeeping #art #creativity #innovation #psychology #society ##games #books #reading #writing

Sometimes, ideas are contagious. philosophics.blog/2026/04/12/f... I've been doing a lot of writing around a common theme and generating fiction and nonfiction alike. And it's nice to be writing fiction again. #philosophy #writing #fictionwriting #nonfiction #essays #blog #publishing #time #thisguy

Grandpa Simpson raising a fist and yelling at clouds. I attended an online close-reading™ of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and let's just say, I came away disappointed, and so I wrote about it. philosophics.blog/2026/04/11/n... #philosophy #reading #writing #blog #podcast #books #nietzsche

I'm leery of the AI debate over creative content – audio or visual media. A recent interview between Rick Beato and Justin Hawkins provided me with a frame. philosophics.blog/2026/04/10/a... #philosophy #music #art #ai #language #perception #psychology #video #virtue #writing

Busy past few days, so a quick update on my current project. philosophics.blog/2026/04/09/m... I discuss the meta and sources of inspiration for this writing project, literary speculative fiction. #philosophy #inspirations #sources #writing #fiction #update #blog

I've been putting off posting about my 5,000+ essay downloads in deference to more 'important' pieces, but since my weekend was occupied plotting a new story idea, I have space for a short celebration. 🥳 philosophics.blog/2026/04/06/c... #philosophy #essays #writing #reading #fiction #nonfiction

A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis predicts this. open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #philosophy #language #midjourney #images #rendering #communication #vectors #ai #genai #generativeai #languageinsufficiency

This isn’t my first post discussing why not all political disagreement is rational, and your interlocutors may not be ignorant, stupid, or arguing in bad faith. open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #philosophy #politics #policy #intelligence #ontology #ignorance #blog #substack

Using AI in a legal context is perfectly defensible. Not following up and not performing due diligence is lazy and derelict. www.whro.org/2026-04-03/p... #philosophy #law #ai #negligence #duediligence #performance #npr #lawyers #responsibility #accountability #writing

In a post from 2024, I made a point on the insufficiency of language to faithfully render an image from a prompt, a specific woman and dog. philosophics.blog/2024/11/08/t... #philosophy #language #llm #genai #ai #image #translation #interpretation #cognition #consciousness #perspective #blog #art

I've finally published my essay resolving the Frege–Geach problem. philosophics.blog/2026/04/04/w... Or have I? You tell me. #philosophy #language #expressivism #essay #blog #semantic #identity #morals #ethics #emotivism #categoryerror #syntax

Third post on time versus duration, this time, brainless jellyfish are doing the teaching. philosophics.blog/2026/04/03/a... #psychology #philosophy #time #rhythm #terrain #map #jellyfish #brains #sun #days #temperature #environment #nature #life #reproduction #biology

I use music and a ProTools example to illustrate the difference between duration and time. I even invoked the debate between Bergson and Einstein in 1922. philosophics.blog/2026/04/02/w... #philosophy #physics #time #duration #blog #podcast #Einstein #Bergson #music #metaphor #social #ClaudeAI

Time travel is impossible science fiction, but not for the reasons pop physics thinks. substack.com/@brywillis63... #scifi #sciencefiction #reading #blog #posting #writing #time #travel #history #philosophy #perspective #timetravel #substack #wordpress #physics

Duration and the Intervalic Imposition: Thinking about TIME and DURATION. Looking for feedback philosophics.blog/2026/04/01/d... #philosophy #physics #time #duration #memory #bergson #kant #Heidegger #husserl #phenomenology #metaphysics #math #maps #blog #podcast #history #reading #writing #essay

An outline of my approach to critique Parfit's moral maths open.substack.com/pub/brywilli... #philosophy #morality #mathematics #parfit #ontologicalgrammar #writing #essay #academic #reading #books

After another 'AI Detected' flag, I resorted to Gemini to lay it out. It produced an entire blog post. 🤖 philosophics.blog/2026/03/31/t... #philosophy #writing #ai #aidetectors #statistics #bollox #blog #podcast #LLMs #ontologicalgrammar #Parfit #perception #critique #Gemini #Kant #language #pooh

Shifting from Parcifal to Parfit, I'm debating the value of moral maths. philosophics.blog/2026/03/30/t... #philosophy #morality #psychology #economics #utility #math #mathematics #blog #essay #writing #podcast #reading #parfit #reason #academia #enlightenment #medical #intervention #hospital

Any putative truths beneath or beyond truth-talk, apart from analytic or tautological cases, are not directly available to us except through mediated encounter, interpretation, and language. substack.com/@brywillis63...

The Nano Banana API comments on blog posts? Is this a thing? philosophics.blog/2024/11/01/m... I noticed a comment from the API commenting on a Midjourney post from Nov 2024. #ai #generativeai #nanobanana #blog #images #midjourney #progress #api #commenting #workflow #advert #language #philosophy

I discuss the phenomenological roots of precedences of The Architecture of Encounter in a new podcast series. philosophics.blog/2026/03/28/a... #philosophy #phenomenology #blog #podcast #video #mediation #ontology #books #writing #promotion #reading #AoE #encounter #summary #history

People seem to love philosophical trolley problems, but they expose more about ontological grammar than a morality profile. philosophics.blog/2026/03/28/h... #philosophy #psychology #morality #harm #trolleyproblem #choice #legibility #society #ethics #virtue #consequences #utility #blog #podcast

I crashed a thread and ran off on this tangent to compare my Architecture of Encounter. philosophics.blog/2026/03/27/p... ChatGPT did the heavy lifting. #mediation #philosophy #ontology #epistemology #worldbuilding #blog #podcast #constraint #pluralism #metaphysics #grammar #systems #objectivity