The Bigot's Argument Logic without true premises is a clock that runs on the wrong time. It is valid all the way to the wrong answer.
On being Angry Frantz Fanon wrote, in ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ, that the colonised do not only resist the coloniser externally; they carry the coloniser ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ. The oppressed absorb the frameworks of their oppression.
Free Will as Phenomenological Experience The core thesis is this: free will is not a substance or faculty that we possess, but a phenomenological experience that we undergo.
Critical Analysis of the EHRC's Code As the legal analyst Ian Dunt observed, the Code 'is a labyrinth of nonsense, an unworkable, illogical, irrational, hopelessly befuddled mess of competing urges, moral panic and institutionalised anxiety.'
meta Mapping My Mind: A Knowledge Graph of This Blog I ran a knowledge graph analysis over the full corpus of this blog โ 33 articles, 244 concepts, 252 connections. Here is what emerged.
On Grief A person-centred (Rogerian) counselling session. Second meeting. Approximately 45 minutes. A 'live' transcript.
The Sanity of the Constituted Self This paper defends the rationality and psychological integrity of transgender individuals against the persistent charge that transgender identity constitutes a form of mental illness or insanity.
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฟ๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ข๐ป๐ฒ: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ป
What is it like to be Human? I did not choose to arrive. That is important, I think, so I will say it first: I did not choose to arrive. The paths that brought me here were laid down by others โ long dead, or perhaps never alive in any sense I would now recognise โ and I followed them because following was all I knew how to do.
Identity and Liberation This paper argues that the dominant Western conception of personal identity โ the belief in a hidden, inner 'real self' that underlies and authenticates our outward behaviour โ is not merely philosophically mistaken but politically disempowering.
The Fourth Day I do not run. I stand among them and I let them look. I have learned that this is what is expected. The miracle is not the raising. The miracle is the return. The miracle is that I stand here, breathing, and they can see it with their own eyes.
The Lucky Ones I am 70 years old. I have lived long enough to watch fashions in prejudice come and go, and I have noticed a pattern: the groups targeted change, but the language of fear is always the same. What varies is who is reading it.
MCC and AI While current large language models present significant challenges to consciousness attribution, the MCC research programme points toward specific, testable criteria that will become increasingly urgent as machine intelligence grows in complexity.
For Women Scotland Otherwise known as The SC Ruling of April 2025. An easy-read summary. The full text of the judgement is available as a PDF download, as is a link to commentary at the House of Commons Library website. June 2026.
The Big Musk Problem Those who possess resources sufficient to distort the cooperative infrastructure upon which all wealth depends are, by their hoarding, eroding the very conditions that make their own wealth possible.
