We’re back home in quiet, snowy Wellfleet after a busy ten days or so in NYC. Our son’s Nick’s wedding went off splendidly well, and it was a joy to see so many friends and family gather from all over the world (including our daughter and her family, who came in from Hong Kong) to celebrate it.
I hope everybody had a good Christmas! I think this was the first time in the twenty years of this blog’s existence that I didn’t put up some sort of Yuletide greeting.
I’ll get back to posting soon; in particular I am likely to have something to say about Eliezer Yudkowsky’s book, which I’ve just started reading, on the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. (I was already deeply blackpilled about this, in a way that I have never been about anything else, ever; from what I’ve read so far I see no reason to temper my pessimism.)
I’ve also been reading a thoroughgoing and highly technical defense, by J.P. Moreland and Brandon Rickabaugh, of substance dualism — a position I never thought I’d find myself inclined to adopt, but which find myself leaning toward in recent years. (The book is called The Substance of Consciousness, if you want to have a look for yourself.)
Back soon.
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I was not aware of the Moreland/Rickabaugh book on substance dualism, so on your recommendation, I have order it from Amazon. On this subject, which greatly interests me, I have profited from reading both Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro’s A Brief History of the Soul and Richard Swinburne’s Are We Bodies or Souls?