The Multiverse According to Ben

Hi all, I have launched a second blog, which is called Post-Interesting www.post-interesting.com and I have invited a number of my friends t...

This post is a response to Bob McCue's comments to my earlier blog entry on "Objective and Subjective Reality". Scroll down af...

This post is inspired by a study of the “delayed choice quantum eraser” experiment described e.g. at http://www.bottomlayer.com/bottom/kim-s...

Another highly nerdy and technical blog entry… I've been working on the last couple chapters of my long-due philosophy-of-mind book ...

I posted a blog a while ago whining about the annoyingness of the style of writing and thinking most common in academia today. This is anoth...

I recently co-founded a group called the DC Future Salon that meets once a month in Bethesda, Maryland, to discuss futuris...

Well, I started writing a followup to my previous blog entry on subjective/objective reality, dealing with issues relating to consciousness ...

This post is a purely intellectual one -- playing at the border between "blog entry" and "brief philosophical essay".......

I was a professor for 8 years, so I'm no stranger to the weird ways of academia. But I've been pretty much away from that universe f...

This entry is motivated by an interesting news article that my friend David Hart forwarded to me, about one of my old favorite topics: time ...

This blog entry deals with issues of aesthetics rather than science..... The particular question is: To what extent is it possible to make ...

As part of finalizing the "Path to Posthumanity" manuscript I decided to update the section on computer conversation to include a ...

Just a mildly amusing "kids story" today.... I walked into my daughter Zadi's second grade classroom yesterday, to pick her up...

A few more thoughts on Aubrey de Grey's work, written down as notes while updating the "anti-aging" chapter in "The Path ...