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December 2012

December 28, 2012

Javert and Valjean at Prayer

The two things I found most frustrating about the Les Mis movie were the camerawork and...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

“Nobody human can stand all that everlasting affection!”

The quote is from Company, the subject is Passion, as the Sondheim Symposium goes on. This installment...

April 2012

April 21, 2012

“What’s Hard is Simple, What’s Natural Comes Hard”

This post is part of Patheos's book club for T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back:...

January 2012

January 22, 2012

Lewis Trounces Freud

I've already blogged once about reading Freud's Last Session, a two person play that is...

December 2011

December 10, 2011

Finding the Morality Pill Hard to Swallow

After a week of talking about transhumanism, brain-hacking, and the persistence of identity, I couldn't...

December 08, 2011

Simulated Ethics and Brainmodding

It's a week of tough questions about transhumanism. After reading my post on moral hazard...

March 2011

March 22, 2011

The Trap of Numbness and Self-Satisfaction

I've still been thinking about some of the questions we've been picking over in the...

March 15, 2011

Prayer, Belief, and More Jump Discontinuities

The post last week on being prayed for sparked some interesting questions about free will...

March 14, 2011

Inducing a Moral Jump Discontinuity (A thought experiment)

Tristyn of Eschatological Psychosis jumps the line by prefacing her comment on my review of...

January 2011

January 12, 2011

Fun and Games with Minds and Brains

There have been a bunch of interesting comments already on my post on Mind/Brain division,...

July 2010

July 28, 2010

“You can’t go around building a better world for people”

For an explanation of what Weatherwax Wednesdays are all about, read the introduction post. This...