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6 questions for believers in AI consciousness!
a ‘choose your own adventure’ philosophical resource...
Oct 5 • Rebecca Lowe

September 2026

on AI, desire, and fictional characters
does sherlock holmes have goals?
Sep 30 • Rebecca Lowe
would you quit sleeping?
imagine a drug that took away the need...
Sep 26 • Rebecca Lowe
why ‘pacing the frontier’?
yet more weird words from the ai guys!
Sep 12 • Rebecca Lowe
why liberalism doesn’t mean ‘anything goes’
my new piece for the Cosmos Institute
Sep 4 • Rebecca Lowe

August 2026

the unspoken problem of hugging face
loose language fuels bad analysis and bad public understanding
Aug 30 • Rebecca Lowe
Working Definition episode 13: Free Will, with Peter van Inwagen
the thirteenth episode of my philosophy podcast!
Aug 23 • Rebecca Lowe
1:09:25
why economists are subjectivists
some thoughts on good economists doing bad philosophy
Aug 22 • Rebecca Lowe
why i’m not eating the chickens and the pigs
and a new argument about ‘morally better’
Aug 18 • Rebecca Lowe
when did Hamlet die?
i just went to the real Elsinore Castle!
Aug 7 • Rebecca Lowe
why i shouldn't go to church anymore
even though sometimes i want to
Aug 3 • Rebecca Lowe

July 2026

of course the people are reading!
you're doing it now. perhaps more than ever before
Jul 19 • Rebecca Lowe
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