I am not sure whether @Michael Levin fully recognizes the metaphysical implications of his radical position (who among us can?!). He is affirming that as yet unactualized patterns in Platonic morphospace have some kind of autonomous efficacy to shape biological development and evolution. From a process-relational point of view, such a position either succumbs to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness by granting abstractions efficient causal power, or it tacitly presupposes something like Whit...| Substack
Below I am outlining the remarks I will share tomorrow morning for day 2 of Gregg Henriques’ UTOK—“Universal Theory of Knowledge”—Conference on Consciousness. I’m speaking on a panel with Michael Levin (the biologist) and @Bonnitta Roy (the philosopher-practitioner of process-relational arts). The Universal Theory-of-Knowledge (UTOK) project calls for a framework capable of integrating physics, biology, psychology, and the humanities. Most theories of mind either begin below the h...| Substack
Film rolls from the last two weeks. The lab had to pull out their tray to house all these rolls. Some might say I need a cheaper hobby. I am not some 😂| Substack
my new green shirts accidentally stained all my white clothes. whoops. 7 years ago this happened and i had a breakdown and then i’ve soaked all “dodgy” clothing overnight in detergent since. last night i forgot and now i have like a new bright green wardrobe. ohwells. will try bleach soon but i’m amazed at how i can just laugh things off now| Substack
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What’s even worse than regulatory capture? Epistemic capture. I’ll explain: Every step in the knowledge production process in science and medicine is captured by the pharmaceutical industry. • Medical school textbooks are often written by academics with a financial conflict of interest. • Medical school curriculum is dictated from above, professors are not free to teach whatever they want like in other departments in a university. • The top 2/3rds of universities own stock in pharma...| Substack
Gay rights “happened” not just in a moment or because of an “uprising” The right to live openly and freely as a gay man came because gay men and women chose to live their lives openly , not relying on the government to give them permission. It happened to me and my partner in the early 80’s. We just lived our lives. And when those small challenges came, like confusion or derision when checking into a hotel and requesting one bed, we just dealt with it as a consumer , not as a gay ma...| Substack
I’ll have to clean these replies up and share them as a proper post later, but I’m grateful to @Stetson for the opportunity to lay out the already well-established case for superseding the old Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. MES remains entrenched only because of institutional inertia, the allure of totalizing explanations, and the physics-envy of some biologists; not because it is somehow more empirically grounded than the many, many organicist biologists and philosophers of biology who h...| Substack
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In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters.| substack.com
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If you listened closely to Hegseth and Trump, they were basically saying the US military should be more like the Russian military--unaccountable for its actions, using lethality in favor of intelligence, and where training can be used to abuse recruits. And if they do that, I can guarantee you it will be as effective as the Russian military.| Substack
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this will look like attempted encirclement on the trade war to Xi. and i would not read too much into the "China also wants to make a deal, badly, but they don’t know how to get it started. We are waiting for their call. It will happen!" as somehow a sign trump is desperate/caving. think that would be the wrong interpretation| Sinocism
"Viver não tem nada a ver com isso que as pessoas fazem todos os dias, viver é precisamente o oposto, é aquilo que não fazemos todos os dias" - Uma edição com dicas de livros, uma série e um podcast!| substack.com
Something I think a lot of oldpeepo don’t understand about Zoomers is the weird combination of asymmetry and insulation from meaningful consequences at the heart of their lived experience. To wit: 1) Small differences in IQ / work ethic / attention span produce WAY bigger deltas in life outcomes for them than was the case for Late Millennials, and with any cohort before it’s not even close. When it comes to distractions, addictions, timesinks etc. the filter these days is insanely aggress...| Substack
The comments on this piece…no one even agrees on what these things mean. I find this recent trend of labeling everything “dominant” or “submissive” truly bizarre, especially when it’s usually inapplicable or fake? Dominant and submissive positions are only relevant, and only truly exist, when there's a conflict. That should be the most obvious starting point. If there's no dispute or conflict, there's no dominance/submission. The only reason D/S even exists as a behavioral tendenc...| Substack
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Last week I had the honour of taking part in the premiere of the inspiring new documentary film about responsible business - ‘Responsables’. It’s been 3 years in production by directors Tristan Lochon and Julien Demond with their team at Welcome to the Jungle. It will be available to watch later in the year, airing first on French TV (Ushuaia TV in September, followed by streaming on TF1+). More details to follow in the coming months about the film and it’s wider release, but if you w...| Substack
The Screen Actors Guild has taken a strong stance against replacing humans actors with AI. But talent agents want to sign these AI characters and turn them into movie stars. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/tech/hollywood-ai-actor-backlash| Substack
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This isn’t an attack on John Pistelli, whose work in general I respect. But the topic of white male novelists and representation in literature is so tiresome, so played out, past its prime, I’d gladly guide it into a suicide pod. But until then, I suppose it gives me yet another chance to rehearse a few points. Art has been declared dead; that means it’s both marginal and ubiquitous to the point of vapidity. High end literature, specifically, isn’t worth much on the market, and doesn...| Substack
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This was a reply to @Gnocchic Apocryphon, but also to @Daniel Oppenheimer and his post-left episode: https://danieloppenheimer.substack.com/p/what-was-the-post-left. Still a lot to work out later, but notes toward a better sociology of the current intellectual configuration. —- First of all, the Trotskyist dimension is essential to understanding the original neocons, though I am shakier on the Podhoretzes and Kristols than neocon-adjacent liberals like Daniel Bell and Seymour Martin Lipset....| Substack
I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list. His so-called “Professor Watchlist,” run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life. For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: “bitch,” “c*nt,” “n****r.” They thre...| Substack
Everything feels like it’s getting harder, doesn’t it? More hours. Less money. More noise. Less attention. And somehow, in all this chaos, we're still expected to “build a career,” “grow a brand,” and “monetize our passion” like it’s not all a full-blown cosmic joke. What even is life? I’ve played this game for over a decade. I’ve built a successful creative business from scratch and helped thousands of authors do the same. and yet… I still feel the weight of this syst...| Substack
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Hi everyone. Chris, Jairaj, and I wanted to let you know that we’ve heard and have been listening to all the views being expressed about how Substack should think about the presence of fringe voices on the platform (and particularly, in this case, Nazi views). I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publ...| Substack
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