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Getting Angry - 3 Quarks Daily by Rachel Robison-Greene

In my new article for 3 Quarks Daily, I think through the political anger I’ve been feeling and the philosophy I use to work through it.

i can't be the only one who has listened to The Windmills of Your Mind a bizarre number of times since the Severance finale?

Personal Identity and Willful Ignorance - 3 Quarks Daily by Rachel Robison-Greene

An explanation for why people don’t change their minds in response to evidence.

Adrift in a Sea of Bullshit - 3 Quarks Daily by Rachel Robison-Greene

Is a real marketplace of ideas possible online, or is the space too flooded with bullshit? My latest for 3 Quarks Daily.

Public Philosophy in Unreasonable Times - 3 Quarks Daily by Rachel Robison-Greene

In the new piece for 3 Quarks Daily, I reflect on my experiences doing public philosophy in the community. I suspect that those who do similar work will relate.

Thanks!

I am, thanks!

That’s nice, thank you!

Aging and the Self - 3 Quarks Daily by Rachel Robison-Greene

My new 3 Quarks Daily article on aging.

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Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)

Google said its quantum computer needed less than five minutes to perform a mathematical calculation that one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years, a length of time that exceeds the age of the known universe.

Whenever recommendation forms ask me to rate an applicant on "self-awareness" I always say "did not observe" on account of being unable to observe other's mental states. Sorry, MIT, even though you've given me a Likert scale, I simply can't tell you if this applicant has higher-order consciousness!

Same.

Overheard just now in the university cafeteria: “This is a rough week. I’m coming apart at the sames.”

Everyone wants to talk about "the hard problem of consciousness" but no one seems interested in identifying the psychopath who locked Mary in a black and white room for long enough for her to learn every physical fact about color.