Mind & Ideas Blogs

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• Emotions: The Power of Releasing and Healing — Ever felt like your emotions are a jammed kitchen drawer, ready to spill? I explain recall healing and how buried feelin
• Getting Spicy: A Guide to Orgasmic Meditation — Ready to get spicy and try orgasmic meditation? I walk you through setting the scene, consent and communication, and a 1
• What is resentment and how can you avoid it? — Ever notice the same arguments replaying in your relationship? In this post I define what is resentment and how to avoid
• Resentment: How to let go — Feeling stuck in bitterness? This post shows how to let go of resentment with five practical steps. I walk you through a
• Multiple Orgasms Question — Lost your multiple orgasms after 40? I answer a reader and give gentle, practical steps to bring them back. Expect breat
• Why Do I Feel Guilty all the Time? — Ever catch yourself asking why do I feel guilty all the time? As a therapist at Modern Love Counseling I unpack why cons
• What Is A Bristle Reaction & What Can It Mean? — Ever tense up during a hug and wonder why? In this post I explain what is a bristle reaction, why it happens, and what i
• The Questionnaire That Made Me Cry: Why I Turned to Astrology — This post offers a peek into my spiritual journey and how I turned to astrology to help reconnect with myself during the
• Unraveling the Past, Rebuilding the Future — How do you rebuild from heartbreak, failure, a future you didn't plan for? How do you pick yourself up from the pain? Ho
• SkyMomChronicles- My Path to Purpose and Peace — This was my very first post on SkyMomChronicles. It's an introduction piece. A small glimpse into my mind. The beginning
• From Fear to Freedom — This is a glimpse into the various challenges and habits that can keep us stuck throughout life. Fear, freedom, self-lov
• Breaking the Chains: Uncovering the Roots of Limiting Beliefs — Break free from limiting beliefs and generational conditioning! Discover how societal expectations, historical mindsets,
• Why populism became popular — Why did populism become popular? I follow Joseph Heath's argument that populists sell gut common sense against elite cog
• When psychologists mislead us — Think the Stanford Prison Experiment proved innate cruelty? In this piece I retrace Piltdown Man and landmark cases like
• The church as refuge — A week on the GR65 showed why medieval churches are the best refuge on a pilgrimage. I describe cool shady interiors, wh
• Just a little closer to the Lord — A hillside cross grown from trees, not stone. I tell the odd Donegal tale of Liam Emery planting 3,000 Japanese larch am
• Maimonides on negative theology — What did Maimonides mean by saying we can only say what God is not? I unpack his apophatic theology from the Guide of th
• Vallicella on Immortal Souls — Can an Aristotelian hylomorphic soul survive the body? Responding to my old buddy Bill Vallicella, I defend Immortal Sou
• Kant’s claustrophobic metaphysics — Hot off the press: my review of Marcus Willaschek's Kant: A Revolution in Thinking appears in the Claremont Review of Bo
• Socratic politics: Lessons from the Gorgias — What if democracy trumps philosophy? I push back on Richard Rorty's "priority of democracy to philosophy", using Plato's
• Xenophanes and natural theology — Who first argued for God by reason, not myth? In this post I make the case for Xenophanes as the founder of Pre-Socratic
• The U.S. war on Iran is manifestly unjust — This war is manifestly unjust. In this post I explain why U.S. participation in Israel's strike on Iran fails the just w
• The pope’s first duty — Curious how Aquinas distinguishes moral absolutes from prudential judgments? In this post I walk through Aquinas on prud
• What counts as death? — What counts as death? Here I lay out a simple view, constant replacement, that dissolves philosophy of personal identity
• Why it matters if "ideas get harder to find" — What if ideas naturally get harder to find? I argue stagnation in science and certain arts follows from semi-endogenous
• "Moral progress" vs. the simple passage of time — Can moral choices be judged as real progress rather than random change? In this post I unpack moral progress vs the simp
• Aggressive challenging behaviour requires personalised interventions, robust caregiver relationships, and sustained system-level support — Curious why antipsychotics still dominate treatment for aggressive challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual dis
• How to Illustrate Philosophy — Could a Roman mosaic teach us how to illustrate philosophy? I follow Thomas Wartenberg's essay from Thoughtful Images, s
• Ray Briggs on Self-Love and Sin — What happens when Aaron Feltman reimagines Gabrielle d'Estrées for today? I read Ray Briggs on self-love and sin for Aes
• The beauty (?) of mathematical proofs -- Functional and non-functional beauty — What makes a proof beautiful? Here I turn to the beauty of mathematical proofs, distinguishing functional and non-functi
• Why I don't care what possible worlds are — Lecture on Lewis and Stalnaker became a classroom experiment on whether the possible worlds debate actually matters. I t
• On the adoption of logical principles — A one-day Kripke workshop at York reignited my fascination with the adoption problem in logic. What the Tortoise Said to
• The Principal Principle does not imply the Principle of Indifference — Think the Principal Principle forces the Principle of Indifference? In this post I argue HLWW's claim is mistaken. I sho
• What is justified credence? — Curious about what makes a credence justified? I use Aafira and Halim's 90% cases to separate good evidence from wishful
• Aggregating abstaining experts — Can you aggregate expert credences when some experts abstain on certain propositions? I explain the coherent approximati
• What is Probabilism? — Curious about what is Probabilism and what the probability axioms for credences really demand? In this post I question t
• Accuracy and explanation: thoughts on Douven — Curious how much five heads in ten tells you about a fair coin? I work through Igor's eleven coins toy example, compute
• More on self-recommending decision theories — Curious whether a decision theory would pick itself? I compute outcomes across 194,481 two-world decision problems, util
• Transformative experiences and choosing when you don't know what you value — What do you do when a choice changes your values? I revisit Laurie Paul's epistemically transformative experiences using
• Choosing for others when you don't know their attitudes to risk — What should a public health official do when the public's attitudes to risk are unknown? I lay out a simple decision mod
• Taking a Good look at the recent literature on inquiry — Curious about when to start or stop an inquiry? Ahead of a conference bridging mainstream and formal epistemology, I off
• Reviving an old argument for Conditionalization — A stubborn puzzle about the Bayesian norm of Conditionalization. I revive and refine our old argument, showing how Creda
• We Are God's Equals in Intrinsic Moral Value — What if we're NPCs in a Sims-style simulation run by a humanlike god? Thinking through the simulation hypothesis and the
• Four Aspects of Harmony — What if harmony is the central value. I argue for an axiology of harmony inspired by Daoism and Confucianism and framed
• Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness? — What if conscious experience isn't simply on or off? I revisit Global Workspace Theory and whether we can introspectivel
• "Severance", "The Substance", and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves — What makes a single self when memory, body and values split apart? I reprint my New York Times op ed on Severance (Apple
• Humble Superintelligence — What if superintelligence behaved like a humble philosopher? I push back on Yudkowsky and Soares, accepting big extincti
• Is Signal Strength a Confound in Consciousness Research? — Could signal strength be a confound in consciousness research? I push back on Michel and Lau, unpacking the blindsight e
• The Intrinsic Value of Diversity — Could a distant planet help us see why moral diversity matters? I argue moral diversity has intrinsic value, not only in
• Disunity and Indeterminacy in Artificial Consciousness (and Maybe in Human Consciousness Too) — What if conscious AI felt fragmented, not unified like ours? I argue that unity of consciousness and determinacy of expe