Consciousness and Entropy: Mind in a Thermodynamic Universe
How thermodynamics constrains, enables, and ultimately limits the existence of conscious minds in a universe trending toward disorder.
Quantum Mechanics Doesn't Support Your Mysticism: A Rigorous Assessment
Separating genuine quantum mysteries from pseudo-scientific appropriation of physics for spiritual claims
Integrated Information Theory: Consciousness as Causal Structure
A mathematical theory claims consciousness isn't correlated with integrated information—it simply is integrated information
Why the Universe Supports Observers: Rethinking the Fine-Tuning Problem
The constants of physics appear calibrated for complexity—but explaining why demands more than multiverse hand-waving or theological appropriation.
Why Does Anything Exist? The Deepest Question Examined
The question that shadows every other inquiry: is existence necessary, contingent, or beyond explanation entirely?
Personal Identity Through Time: What Makes You You?
From fission puzzles to four-dimensional worms, how metaphysics and physics reshape what we mean when we say 'I'
Nominalism and Universals: Must Properties Exist?
Exploring whether the properties science describes require abstract entities in reality or can be explained through concrete particulars alone.
Emergence of Spacetime: Is Space an Illusion?
Quantum gravity research increasingly suggests that space itself emerges from entanglement—with radical consequences for locality, causation, and fundamental ontology.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness Remains Hard: Why Reductions Keep Failing
After three decades of sophisticated attempts, the failure pattern reveals something fundamental about consciousness that reduction cannot capture.
Why Information Might Be the Universe's True Foundation
Physics increasingly reveals that particles, forces, and spacetime may emerge from information—suggesting bits are more fundamental than atoms.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics
Why do abstract mathematical structures, developed through pure thought, repeatedly become essential for describing physical reality?
The Self as Illusion: Buddhist Philosophy Meets Cognitive Science
Two traditions, twenty-five centuries apart, reach the same conclusion: the self you defend doesn't exist as you imagine it.
Free Will and Determinism: A Scientist's Guide to the Eternal Problem
Scientific findings transform rather than dissolve the ancient puzzle—revealing which versions of agency survive empirical scrutiny and which never made sense.