I hired Claude to articulate my thoughts on the self-improvement industry… https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/01/the-grammar-of-bettering-yourself/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social …and, frankly, LinkedIn and pop psychology. I leverage my notion of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A novella about time and memory. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/30/new-release-the-box/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social I hear that people no longer read, don't read novellas, and have short attention spans. I figure that if they've got short […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Architecture of Willing is not yet complete, but I wanted to lock in my choice of colour: a dark aubergine-violet. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/29/architecture-of-willing-cover-art/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social I hope to release it in May […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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

I’d like to share a NotebookLM summary of an early draft of Chapter 1, which serves as an introductory chapter: Authoring Displacement and the Cake Grammar or some such. Have a listen […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In this second of two essays, I discuss the immorality of property, even deeper than the first post yesterday. https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/before-the-fence-the-self #philosophy #language #ontology #criticaltheory #blog #podcast #property #rights […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I've argued that property rights are immoral. Now, I've shared a pair of posts that argue at a deeper level. This is the first: https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-fence-before-the-field #Philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #language #ontology […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

James Ladyman and I agree that language is a fundamental impediment to understanding – and this includes notions of reality. https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/everything-must-go?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web So, of course, I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/double-coincidence-of-wants/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I've shared my thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre before, but 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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I read the opening chapter of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day through the lens of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis and the notion of ontological grammar […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Just sharing a book cover design candidate in a blog post. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/13/the-box-cover-design/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social 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'. Do #LLMs ruin everything? https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/12/the-environment-always-wins-the-myth-of-pure-voice/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social This is always in the back of my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sometimes, ideas are contagious. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/12/funny-that/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social I've been doing a lot of writing around a common theme and generating fiction and nonfiction alike around a common topic. And it's nice to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I've always been leery of the AI debate over creative content – audio or visual media, including written material. A recent interview between Rick Beato and Justin Hawkins provided me with a frame […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Busy past few days, so a quick update on my current project. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/09/meta-of-the-box/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social I discuss the meta and sources of inspiration for this writing project, literary speculative fiction […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://zirk.us/@epochemagazine/116366366358531871 The divergence is simple. MEOW holds that mediation is constitutive, not eliminable: we don't confront the world unfiltered, but neither do we inhabit a sealed chamber of representations. LIH adds that language routinely overstates its own […]

RE: https://zirk.us/@epochemagazine/116366366358531871 That said, MEOW and LIH both lean more toward Bergson than Dennett, though not without qualification. Bergson is closer insofar as he resists the redoubling of experience into event plus inner representation, and treats lived encounter as […]

RE: https://zirk.us/@epochemagazine/116366366358531871 I’m broadly in agreement with the piece, particularly in its rejection of the inner-theatre model and its suspicion that the so-called problem of qualia is partly manufactured by inherited metaphysical assumptions. From the standpoint of […]

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 celebratory piece. Hooray for me. 🥳 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Using AI in a legal context is perfectly defensible. Not following up and not performing due diligence is lazy and derelict. This extends to any serious endeavour. https://www.whro.org/2026-04-03/penalties-stack-up-as-ai-spreads-through-the-legal-system […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"He counts a total of more than 1,200 to date, of which about 800 are from U.S. courts." www.whro.org/2026-04-03/p...

In a post from 2024, I made a point on the insufficiency of language to faithfully render an image from a prompt. In this example, I wanted it to depict a specific woman and dog oriented to a tree in a forest. Although me endeavour was unsuccessful, it made […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I've finally published my essay resolving the Frege–Geach problem. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/04/when-syntax-is-asked-to-bear-too-much-v1-2/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social Or have I? You tell me. I had worked to dissolve the problem in February […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Third post on time versus duration, this time, brainless jellyfish are doing the teaching. https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/03/a-jellyfish-knows-more-about-time-than-your-physics-textbook/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social In this study, we unlink […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Time travel is impossible science fiction, but not for the reasons pop physics thinks. https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-236459523?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web #scifi #sciencefiction #reading #blog #posting #writing #time […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Duration and the Intervalic Imposition: Thinking about TIME and DURATION. Looking for #feedback https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/01/duration-and-the-intervalic-imposition/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social #philosophy #physics #time #duration #memory […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An outline of my approach to critique Parfit's moral maths https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/beyond-parfit-moral-maths-and-the?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #philosophy #morality #mathematics #parfit […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

After another 'AI Detected' flag, I resorted to Gemini to lay it out. https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/31/this-post-is-almost-entirely-ai-read-it-anyway/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social Gemini produced an entire blog post. It did offer me tips to dumb […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Shifting from Parcifal to Parfit, I'm debating the value of moral maths that seem to be an outgrowth of the attempt to couch everything as utility and economics […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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. I am going to make a concerted effort to quit using the word truth […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Nano Banana API comments on blog posts? Is this a thing? https://philosophics.blog/2024/11/01/midjourney-pirates/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social I noticed a comment awaiting approval on my Philosophics Blog. It was from the API commenting on a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I discuss the phenomenological roots of precendences of The Architecture of Encounter in a new blog series. https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/28/architecture-of-encounter-podcast-episode-0-phenomenologists/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social #philosophy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

People seem to love philosophical trolley problems, but they expose more about ontological grammar than a morality profile. https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/28/how-trolley-problems-launder-metaphysics-into-intuition/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social The […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I crashed a thread and ran off on this tangent to compare my Architecture of Encounter. https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/27/plural-worlds-or-plural-mediations-goodman-meets-meow/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social I prompted ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In some parts of the Western world, we're taught that jury-by-peer is a bastion of fairness, but what is a peer? https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/27/ive-been-thinking-peers/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social I suggest that this propaganda isn't all it's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/resolving-frege-geach #journal #language #morality #perception, #philosophy #writing #essay #ethics #history #debate #argument

I've spent the last few hours discussing this point with several LLMs. https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/24/100-human-content/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social If the AI tells are so well-known and predictable, why don't we simply reverse them? tl;dr? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Although I am easily distracted, it is never for nought. Today, I've been thinking of the orthography and morphology of Parsifal whilst trying to decide which version to run with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The deeper I get into thinking about this essay, the more I realise my perspective as an outsider drew me to it and shapes it. https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/23/whom-do-you-serve-wip/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social As a management consultant, I was […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I'm still considering the outline for my 'Grail' essay. I've decided to begin with Substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/whom-does-the-grail-serve-institutional?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true I have […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

John Locke and Opportunism. The last of a 13-part series of a chat with Claude AI on the Parable of the Valley https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/22/comrade-claude-13-locke-opportunism/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social #philosophy #ethics #morality #parable […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Read a high-level summary of the chapters in The Architecture of Encounter. https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-architecture-of-encounter?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true When we're not writing, we may be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]