Essays on Substack

• The Anthropocentrism Trap, Part 2 — What the Bias Conceals
• The Anthropocentrism Trap, Part 1 — What 19th-century skull measurements reveal about how we assess other minds
• A Promissory Note — Deferred Explanation in Physicalism
• The Floor Beneath the Lab — Physicalism as Metaphysical Assumption
• The Marine Peak — What Cetacean Brains Reveal About Consciousness
• Consciousness Across Evolution — What the Tree of Life Actually Shows
• The Limits of Language — Why Consciousness Is Hard to Talk About
• From Cosmos to Machine — How a Metaphor Became a Worldview
• Two Fundamental Perspectives — The Question That Divides Everything
• The Broader Argument — A Summary of the essay, “Worlds of Awareness”
• Quantum Emergence — Implications for the reductionist worldview
• Other Minds in the Oceans — What Cetacean Brains Reveal About Consciousness
• Worlds of Awareness — Is a continuum of awareness — a vast range of what it is like to be something — fundamental to life on earth? This project argues that it is.
• The Magician’s Bargain — Magic was not replaced by modernity. It was subsumed into it.