Personhood

I often find my mind trapped in a whirlpool of a million thoughts and ideas that pop in and out of existence within a fraction of a second. …

By Robert Hanna *** This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also…

What does it mean to be a person? My sister has vascular dementia. It is a terrible disease. It robs one of personhood. She is not the person who was my sister. She looks like her, but there is no person there. She does not even know who she is…

Sometimes I wonder how beautiful it is to watch the sunset with the most wonderful person you can ever be with. How light your heart can be with the not-so-soft melody of its beating pattern. I wonder how it is to be with that one person who can be so…

Which ones should you care about? — Re-Assembling Reality #21a by David A. Palmer and Mike Brownnutt. In Re-Assembling Reality #20, we saw that there is a potentially infinite number of metapersons, and many different ways of relating to them. Most of the humans in the world have regular or occasional relationships with metapersons (which we also…

I walked out onto the deck, where you were sanding the railing, and brushed off some cushions, and it was wrong. It was completely wrong. I tried to use little words, pointing out that they were dirty, but it didn’t matter. It was wrong. It was all wrong. Why, will…

Banning abortion barely scratches the surface — For all the noise surrounding fetal personhood and whether life begins at conception, “pro-life” advocates rarely mention consequences beyond abortion. It’s not clear they’ve thought it through. But that’s not good enough. Defining an unborn child as a person in its own right will fundamentally alter the relationship between a…

By Michelle Maiese *** The descriptive sub-title of this blog — Against Professional Philosophy — originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, nine years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this new series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly…

There is something sacred to the human being. There is something particular about human life that is intangible. There is something within the soul that is felt by those around us. What is this incomprehensible notion? How do we articulate the feeling of the presence of another human being? Is…