Bo Fowler's Blog
June 3, 2022
Arboretum
'One cannot see the forest for the trees' they say but what if the forest is really only a single tree appearing to us as a group?
May 2, 2022
Vocabulary
How quaint we have the word 'reality'.
April 17, 2022
The New Problem of Suffering
What, in the next ten thousand years, are we to do with all the non-human animals?
April 10, 2022
On Pettiness
Great men are petty in great ways.
December 23, 2021
'Solutions'
Just as there are stones we cannot lift without the help of machines so there are philosophical problems whose solution will belong to the machines we build to solve them, not to us; to us the solution will not seem like a solution.
December 8, 2021
The problem is the problem
Is it the world or us that is wrong? Perhaps nothing is wrong at all.
November 18, 2021
Aspirations
The most we may hope for are moments of near perfection.
November 10, 2021
Artificial Emotions
Our machines will live and feel far more than us.
October 30, 2021
The Tourist
Even the greatest, semi-divine, rules of a society are but quaint colloquial conventions to the philosopher.
October 22, 2021
Will to Power
We could say that all life is functionally mad.
