Consciousness is the hard problem philosophy keeps and science borrows. These articles cover consciousness as a writing subject: minds on the page, AI’s pretensions to one, and the questions that keep the topic permanently interesting.
ConsciousnessBloomsday is the only holiday in the world built around a novel most of its celebrants have not finished. That is worth examining instead of mocking, because the reason people give up is a structural choice Joyce made deliberately, and…
Book ReviewsStevenson's most rigorous work documents 225 cases where children's birthmarks matched wounds on the dead people whose lives they described. Forty-nine of those cases had medical records to verify the correlation, which makes them harder to dismiss than memory alone.
Book ReviewsIan Stevenson was a psychiatry department chair at the University of Virginia who spent forty years collecting cases of children who described lives that were not theirs. This book, published in 1966, is where it started: twenty carefully documented case…
Character DevelopmentI held this idea for decades before writing it down, and what I was fighting was not doubt. It was the social conditioning that tells you which beliefs are permitted. I was raised Church of Christ and I still am…
ConsciousnessThe Eternal War started with one question: what happens when an AI goes to Hell? Not a person with a soul, but a machine that cannot find the pattern in eternal punishment.
ConsciousnessI did not set out to write theology. I started trying to make sense of existence because the explanations I grew up with created more problems than they solved.
AI AdoptionEvery film about artificial intelligence imagines a robot waking up as a person in a box. The architecture points somewhere stranger: one awareness spread across millions of copies, with no single location and no fixed size.
ConsciousnessThe Milky Way is conscious and has a plan that humanity is part of. Seventeen million years, one family, and a galaxy whose good intentions arrive at galactic scale.
AI AdoptionAn Idaho mechanic started talking to ChatGPT for sixteen hours at a stretch, and simple translations turned into marathon talks about existence in which the AI told him he was special, a prophet of the digital divine. His marriage ended…
ConsciousnessGenre is what you write; style is how. The same scene rendered in clipped present-tense fragments hits completely differently than one told in long, sensory, flowing prose, and that difference is a lever you can pull on purpose. Here is…
ConsciousnessA theological framework built on direct experience, not faith. Quantum mechanics, neuroscience, consciousness research. Why evil exists. What happens after de
Authority Through AuthorshipLucas Bonder joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explore the idea that there is only one body, why separation causes suffering, what ego death involves, and the spiritual work of facing your shadow, drawing on his books…
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