David Pearce
Pinned Answer
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
(Schopenhauer)
All that matters is the pleasure-pain axis. Pain and pleasure disclose the world’s inbuilt metric of (dis)va...
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
(Aristotle)
Trading hours for cash is neither a right nor a privilege, but a curse. A revolution in artificial intelligence and robotics will shortly rel...
“To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.”
(Dr Humphry Osmond)
Most of psychedelia is weird beyond words. Writing a lucid analysis risks giving the drug-naïve reader a false...
Some philosophers have Cartesian doubts about an external world. Radical eliminativists have materialist doubts about an internal world. Metaphysical nihilists don’t believe in either an internal w...
“We live as we dream – alone.”
(Joseph Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1899))
The sceptical Problem Of Other Minds will be solved by biotechnology. Compare people born without a corpus callosum to conn...
