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I've been annoyed by the frequency with which "life extension" or "anti-aging" has ceased to point towards radical mechanism investigation and principled interventions like the ones Aubrey De Grey and John Wentworth have proposed. Instead, it's mostly tinkering around the edges w...

Fox has performed some material services for people in my near social network, which we can all easily see are valuable and for which we don't have a good alternative provider (e.g. lovingly touching people and doing other similar things they missed from their mothers). Since most of us aren't able ...

Hmm that puts me in mind of the Greek words έπος and λόγος, which both eventually mean “word” but seem to originally have been distinct ideas - the former to a phoneme cluster or discrete orally produced sound, and the latter to a physical cluster or perhaps bundle, related to its verb form which me...

In 2015, living in Berkeley, CA, I had a depressive episode. While there were obvious moral contributors to my mood, some sort of nutritional deficiency had clearly been a contributor as well - I was drinking a lot of power smoothies (which were *supposed* to be approximately nutritionally complete)...

Julian Jaynes does a decent job describing consciousness functionally as a mental metaphor of one's self as an opaque container that contains one's feelings, thoughts, and intentions, so they're immediately available to you but not necessarily to others. Carruthers's notion of consciousness as the i...