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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 29/09/2026

Have you always wanted to see me standing unsteadily on a ship at sea while talking manically about illusionism and reactivity? Then this is your lucky day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkO...

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Reactivity and Illusion: A Post-Cartesian Perspective on the Distribution Question. Keith Frankish

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Adam Toon @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📚 Our Cambridge Element on Mental Fictionalism is out now and available free until 19th October! 📚 Download it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... @keithfrankish.com @universitypress.cambridge.org #philsky #philmind #philpsy #cogsci

Cover of Mental Fictionalism, by Ted Parent, Adam Toon and Tamas Demeter (Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Mind).

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We keep asking LLMs whether they're conscious. I got more interested in WHO and WHEN taught them how to answer. I traced such self-report through 66 training checkpoints, 3 post-training stages, ~90k continuations. Paper: philarchive.org/archive/EKRWPT #philosophy #llm #ai #science #consci #cogsci

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What if consciousness isn't real? By @timbayne.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social "we should ask whether bees, babies or bots are conscious. But in asking that question, we should be alive to the possibility that the question itself might need replacing." www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

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What if ‘consciousness’ isn’t real?

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 18/09/2026

I've heard that Magister Productions are bidding for the new Dr Who contract. This is their Head of Production, Victor Magister.

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 18/09/2026

Would anyone be interested in my thoughts on generative AI? (I'm thinking of writing a series of blog posts on it.)

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 18/09/2026

In my class at school, there was a boy whose name was Waugh. At the start of each new year, the poor lad repeatedly had to stand up and say, "Please sir/miss, it's pronounced 'waff'"

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 17/09/2026

-So, our first contender. Your name, please? -Mae Freund -Your specialist subject is rhetorical questions, and your time starts now. How may roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? -Nine? -No, the answer Mae Freund is blowing in the wind -Doh! -How many times must the cannon balls...

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 17/09/2026

Kids used to be vaccinated against fascism by listening to the stories of fathers, uncles, and grandfathers who had fought in the war. But people seem to be anti-vax these days.

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 17/09/2026

We each see the world through a lens That's been ground by our past to intens- ify things that might harm us; But too often these armours Show foes where there could be new friends.

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 17/09/2026

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W. M. Lewis

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Chapter Zero of my new book in draft, Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights (comments warmly welcomed!), here: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/09/huma...

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Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights -- Chapter Zero

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The St Cuthbert Gospel (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) retains its original binding and is the oldest intact European book." BL Add MS 89000; Early 8th century; The St Cuthbert Gospel; Wearmouth-Jarrow; ff.1r-1v @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 15/09/2026

"Johnny? He's in the basement . . . I don't know, mixing up the medicine probably . . . Me? I'm outside . . . Where exactly? On the pavement . . . What? Talking. I'm talking . . . About the government, mainly. Look, I've got to go now. There's a man in a coonskin cap who wants something."

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 15/09/2026

This picture needs Bob Dylan in it

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 14/09/2026

If you would not intervene in the case described, how favourable would your opinion of the person on the tracks have to be for you to be moved to pull the lever that saves them?

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 14/09/2026

New trolley problem. A politician you hate is tied to the tracks, and a runaway trolley is heading straight for them. You can divert the trolley onto another track where it will hard no one. What do you do?

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 13/09/2026

I can't recommend this highly enough. A 1969 BBC documentary about Craghead Colliery and the community it supported. It's atmospherically shot in colour and told largely through the thoughtful, articulate voices of the miners themselves and their families. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQyx...

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1969: Craghead Colliery | A Year in the Life | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Many of you will know the famous finding from @existwell.bsky.social and Derek Anderson: Philosophers' views on philosophical questions are not predicted by their personality traits But why not? I asked Anderson about this, and he had a very intriguing suggestion philarchive.org/rec/YADTPO-2

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 11/09/2026

I saw Goody Osburn using ChatGPT!

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 10/09/2026

There are some decent lines here. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._P...

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J. B. Priestley - Wikiquote

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 10/09/2026

I dislike almost every take on AI. I don't think we've worked out a good one yet.

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 10/09/2026

I would claim to be certain of very few things, and I'm not certain I'm certain even of those things.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is one of the questions in an episode of Ask The Family from 1973. Can you work it out in your head? One of the fathers did, though it took him 25 seconds to get it. Square root of 625??? Oh yeah, that's common knowledge.

Square root of 64 plus (3 squared multiplied by the square root of 16) minus (2 squared plus 7) all over the square root of 265 minus (2 cubed plus the square root of 9) minus 3

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 10/09/2026

Il faut -- and I cannot emphasize this enough -- cultiver notre jardin

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 10/09/2026

I thought I'd make a wise comment, but then I thought better of it.

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 09/09/2026

There will be plenty for jobs for humans in the AI future. For example, - human cannonball - human statue - human mannequin - human alarm clock - human footstool

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 08/09/2026