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Is subjective experience essential to true consciousness?
Is subjective experience essential to true consciousness? 600 382 admin

Is subjective experience essential to true consciousness?

(reading time: 6 mins) Humans are considered the only truly conscious animals, because we are not just reacting to our environment but we do so through a rich complex inner world. However I think this…

When is a tax not a tax? When it’s a carbon dividend
When is a tax not a tax? When it’s a carbon dividend 600 315 admin

When is a tax not a tax? When it’s a carbon dividend

(reading time: 8 mins) Scientists and economists have long advocated carbon taxes as the most effective way to remove carbon from the world economy. The carbon dividend is one of the few ways to make…

Climate change, anxieties and actions
Climate change, anxieties and actions 600 315 admin

Climate change, anxieties and actions

Image courtesy of NASA (reading time: 11 mins) This summer’s heatwave through Europe and Asia was one of many extraordinary weather events, which along with forest fires, storms and flash floods, are becoming less extraordinary…

The limits of Extinction Rebellion
The limits of Extinction Rebellion 600 314 admin

The limits of Extinction Rebellion

(reading time: 4 mins) Why was I absent from Bristol’s Extinction Rebellion protests last week? I’m a left leaning voter who accepts time is running out for climate change action. Last winter I spent eight…

The myths that divide us from nature 150 150 admin

The myths that divide us from nature

(reading time: 8 mins) The ancient idea that whatever enables human consciousness is a basic property of our material world is an elegantly simple philosophical standpoint. But few can conceive how it might work in…

Video release 150 150 admin

Video release

After some months of work, I’ve boiled down the content of three previous blog posts on the measurement problem and consciousness into a 28 minute video. The video and blog posts came about because modern…

How to build a green roofed garden store 150 150 admin

How to build a green roofed garden store

Since I laid out my slate patio a few years back I’ve used it less than expected. I realised lack of storage was one reason for this. Along with the inevitable broken flower pots and…

10 WordPress plugins for a writer’s blog 150 150 admin

10 WordPress plugins for a writer’s blog

WordPress is an excellent tool for getting your writing online, but as a web programmer I know that it lacks some important features ‘out of the box’. When I set up this site I immediately…

The electron has a tendency 150 150 admin

The electron has a tendency

(reading time: 18 mins) In the third and final episode of the excellent BBC series ‘Atom – The Illusion of Reality’ Dr Jim Al-Khalili asks the apparently unanswerable question: We are made of the same…

Public transport – an alternate route? 150 150 admin

Public transport – an alternate route?

Public transport is the most efficient way to move people around our cities, so why is it not more widely used? In many UK cities people use their public transport unwillingly. Increased privatisation has not…

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