Strange triangle of conversations last night with humans and Chat-GPT. Emily Thomas, who I know only from her Bergson interview of Emily Herring at Durham Uni, shared a scanned extract from "an old philosophy book" on X/Twitter. My interest was piqued by the fact that a lot of recent scientific history of left-right (human) brain hemispheric behaviour started with…

This is just a stub / holding post for future elaboration. I have an agenda item to address Antisemitism and Islamophobia in mostly-secular Western "Christian culture" (like ours) or ex-colonies elsewhere - where in fact they are pretty much examples of the same issue. We tend to have them as live discussion topics only in reaction to some extreme or violent "terrorism" event or series of events - which polarises the language too quickly to get to any shared understanding.

Heard Jimmy Wales giving a plug to his new book "The Seven Rules of Trust -Why It Is Today's Most Essential Superpower" on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning. Trust has been the explicit subject of many posts here up to about 2012, since then it has been subsumed into my "Rules of Engagement" under Respect (Good-Faith / Honest-intentions & Trust).

The government is standing by safeguarding minister Jess Phillips as the grooming gang row deepens.

Homeward-bound having been offline for a whole week on a trip to Bilbao via the Brittany Ferries service from Portsmouth. Overall a slower pace of life travelling this way and visiting the sights a…

Homeward-bound having been offline for a whole week on a trip to Bilbao via the Brittany Ferries service from Portsmouth. Overall a slower pace of life travelling this way and visiting the sights and tabernas of the Basque capital on foot, except for one longer trip by metro to the coastal resort at Plentzia. Gave me reading time to catch up on four part-read books.

The company name "Autonomy" mean anything to you? As I consolidate my formal writing I'm always referring back to my Pysbertron blog post archives from earlier, and forever surprising myself with things I'd written and forgotten. Given that's 25 years or evolution not only in my writing but in any chance any current readers are likely to have read them, I've been tempted to start a series of reposts of ones I'd made earlier.

My take on McGilchrist in 2025 is still essentially everything I picked-up from his 2021 "The Matter With Things" with its Sacred Turn and the added interest of his much earlier 1982 "Against Criticism". His thinking is an important, embedded part of my own story at several levels. Since TMWT was published there was also a…

How to realise life, humanity and the cosmos anew. Click to read The Matter with Things, by Iain McGilchrist, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Really just a housekeeping post, based on re-reading some earlier "Annual Edge Question" responses and recognising that the so-called "Last Edge Question" in 2018 has proven to really be the last, and brought the 20 year annual run of John Brockman's "Edge" and his writer agency clients, to a close. Ironically, the last collection I actually reviewed was 2017, gave only a passing mention to 2018, the last one published and 2019 was the year Jeffrey Epstein was finally indicted, refused bail pending trial and died on multiple long-term sex-trafficking conspiracy charges, altogether more serious that the single 2009 conviction for which he was originally registered as a sex-offender.

My agenda is like anyone else’s these days, to find better ways of understanding and making better decisions in a world where recent experience suggests we are failing to get to grips with th…

My agenda is like anyone else's these days, to find better ways of understanding and making better decisions in a world where recent experience suggests we are failing to get to grips with the existential polycrises facing us and some metacrisis that might underly these. My focus being the latter, means my interest is unashamedly abstract and conceptual, philosophical and even metaphysical, rather than the physical and human world details of any one crisis.

The Robert Pirsig Association announces an online Chautauqua:”Pirsig the Sailor” – Sunday, October 5th – 12pm EST/9am Pacific, October’s RPA Chautauqua features:Paul F…