3+ hour, 56+ min ago  (479+ words) Posted June 4, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk My recent post on cognitive surrender generated more response than almost anything I've written recently. I think it's because people recognized something uncomfortably familiar in themselves. The shift of difficult thinking to artificial intelligence…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (477+ words) Posted June 1, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Here is a question humanity keeps stumbling over, regardless of the domain: Do we change people first, or the systems they inhabit? Do we fix the individual before fixing the institution, or the institution…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (219+ words) Posted May 31, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Which raises the obvious question: what does it mean to be human anymore? So far, the machine has learned everything about the world from original human generated content. But now that it is so…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (539+ words) Posted January 24, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina Is metaphysics (the study of the ultimate foundation of reality) useful? I will argue that a substantive part of the literature is not - or what we call analytic metaphysics. Here, philosophers focus largely on…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (671+ words) Updated May 26, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina So I'm beginning to wonder whether velocity was measuring the wrong thing. For a long time we've treated intelligence as something essentially stable, a capacity refined through learning and experience. I think that AI…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (455+ words) Posted May 26, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph. D. An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (471+ words) Posted May 16, 2026 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan We have always moved toward whatever makes consciousness easier to carry. I'll suggest that this instinct predates algorithms and screens and perhaps even writing itself. It's not a modern weakness or a failure of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (209+ words) Posted May 22, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills Recently, some authors have used AI to write their entire manuscripts, yet when published, the book may lack the emotional component that connects readers to stories. It is evident that while AI has revolutionized…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (329+ words) The rise of AI "humanizers" marks a curious shift from using language as evidence of thought to using it as camouflage for its absence....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (377+ words) Posted May 18, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Groups do more than contain feelings'they process them. Collectively. Through rituals, through conversations, through the quiet choreography of people who share a history. Grief moves differently through a room than it does through a…...