Merry Christmas to me!

My article on aeonophiles (ultra-long lived organisms) came out in Aeon Magazine today!

He Knew

In my first Substack post, I write about why panpsychism - the view that consciousness is everywhere - should be taken seriously. While seemingly radical, it rests on a set of individually compelling premises about the nature of reality. Subscribe for more! ✨ #philsky

We're all fundamental. Here's my weird take on #panpsychism. Open-access article! 🙂 #philsky

“Within this culture, physicalism often functions not as a contested ontological thesis, but as a default assumption, one barely needing defence. As a result, arguments in favour of physicalism are typically held to a far lower standard of scrutiny than those opposing it.“ @finnthwaite.bsky.social

Thanks to whoever gave/sold this to Skoob books. What a find! Excited to read the real thing rather than the PDFs.

it’s a competition.

The Indispensability of Intuitions by @gnosishead.bsky.social . New in the Elements in Epistemology series. Free download till 5 November. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Maybe not surprising when you consider how much of academia functions as a refuge for weird little gremlins who just want to be left alone to work on our model trains

It's too far-fetched, unfortunately.

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

people *always* see Superman and Clark Kent in the same place

Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4

I'm honored to have my work featured in this workshop in Bochum, January 29-30 2026. See the poster for Call for papers, and list of excellent other speakers!

For all of us there should be some threshold where we put aside all our other projects and focus instead on resisting tyranny. It's just extremely difficult to see where that line is from the inside, when you're the frog being boiled.

So grateful to everyone who helped me organise the Summer School on Panpsychism at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as to everyone who attended! ☺️ Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻

15 years of radio observations yielded this amazing view down the throat of a black hole. We're looking into a jet of plasma shooting out from a supermassive black hole, called PKS 1424+240. The lines depict intense magnetic fields threaded through the jet. 🧪🔭 www.mpg.de/25171297/eye...

So many of my fellow scientists are deeply anti-intellectual at heart.