HeyJaredPhilosophy and Fiction
Philosophy and Fiction is my personal blog where I discuss philosophy of mind, fiction, and whatever. I also manage the Substack for After Dinner Conversation.
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How our pets bring us closer to a primordial divine order. (opens the original)
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A chat with Ptolemy Tompkins—son of Secret Life of Plants author and New Age guru, Peter Tompkins—on a book I’ve written about before (it’s my personal favorite of his), <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Life-Animals-Discover-Whether/dp/030745133X/?crid=1EC3R7JTTI4YV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qSij1_htyGJ-IcSKumkZtULMzgQk3ciYEHWlsrcoZ_fu4P5RxQV-qTWqL8exYjw0YyF3mnzANSR9ZampfSHt-lOUYIDaE53BKp0F78kK9uWWAhrUJvUHJr4pDI4AXdg1MpAWfjbHk_hReFCAfp98dmDnYTOp
Do we get to keep our favorite t-shirt in the afterlife? (opens the original)
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A chat with Ptolemy Tompkins—son of Secret Life of Plants author and New Age guru, Peter Tompkins—on The Modern Book of the Dead. In it, he sets out to draw a detailed map of the afterlife, of which we science-soaked moderns have virtually no conception—either we don’t believe in an afterlife or we believe in a “something beyond” that’s hopelessly vague. Whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, it’s kind of important to know what we
What’s it like to write a mega bestseller and not get credit for it? (opens the original)
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A chat with the elusive Ptolemy Tompkins—son of Secret Life of Plants author and New Age guru Peter Tompkins—on ghost writing <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Heaven-Neurosurgeons-Journey-Afterlife/dp/1451695195/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XFBVUMI6O759&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QsodMO9jY8XrpyBWrQc2Fm1qfjO6fJ_1gU3ryzC7XtyHWETjqMZICqY_jfnASnxmknz2TVyblwtv-WTmPDFmHNDZ_Xnl9AIR5YWZDISFGXZH8DxCNBInTl4AYU_Ti-s5GFhGd9ZSytMEe0WK-X74Wr5tiCQgUIr3Dgi8DeaoloY7jvSOpPvG_GpAoagBCUA4jRjC87QnXdgezu23W1ShCDVm-7dd08Pe6LvrQ5ZAwYw.
The Catcher in the Cacti (opens the original)
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Arizonans might recognize the local news story (or rather, stories) this chapter is inspired by. You know how it ends. Rest assured that if this bit makes it into my novel, justice will prevail. I don’t know how yet, but if I have to pull out a book of magic spells to make it happen, I will. Those of you who haven’t heard the news, I’ll leave you in blissful ignorance.The following video of me reading from my novel-in-progress would’ve been insanely boring to watch were it not for the cute creat
Does "strong" emergence break physics laws? (opens the original)
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In my last post I talked about why functionalists should dump causal closure. This post continues that topic somewhat, but here I’ll compare constitutive panpsychism to Sean Carroll’s physicalism—or what he calls poetic naturalism—as described in his paper, Consciousness and the Laws of Physics. At the end I’ll discuss emergence (definitions to come). Click the footnotes
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