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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

When Physics Runs Out of Answers, Does Metaphysics Have Any? Does science explain reality, or merely describe it? And what happens when our questions outlive the frameworks that make them intelligible? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Are the manifestations in France a canary in the Neoliberalism coal mine? I, for one, hope so, and can't wait for it to die a painful death.* www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpRl1ajsj-k * NB: I've been waiting for this eventuality for decades on end. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking […]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I discuss the environment that inspired my current manuscript, Needle's Edge, and how US public policy decisions based on morality instead of medical science led to the ensuing opioid crisis and the fentanyl deaths that followed. This is causal – and not […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

In the Substack piece, I discuss how photos lie, and captions exacerbate the fiction. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/an-i… #philosophy #facts #truth #lies #media […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I share my perspective on composite characters in fiction writing using my own work in progress as a focal point. It's on my Substack […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I've resumed writing the manuscript for an (obviously) unfinished piece of fiction. As it stands, it might be best categorised – if one is so inclined; I'm not a fan of the limitation of genres – as literary fiction, and more particularly as a biographical […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I've been thinking about the challenges of Liberalism and its stated goals. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/admi… #substack #blog #writing #philosophy #politics #essay […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I commenced reading another LLM book recommendation: Piranesi. 📚 brywillis634737.substack.com/p/pira… I've read the first two chapters and commented on my Substack. #philosophy #psychology #reading #books #substack #blog #review […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is neither a self-defence of heteronormativity nor a salacious lesbian romp. I finished reading this over the weekend. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/i-wh… The piece is a critique […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

This meme provoked this Substack note: In reaction to the visual meme: I’m no fan of colonialism, empire, or hegemony, but the distinction between colonisation and ordinary acculturation may be rather thinner than we like to admit […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

You know what you mean, right? Of course you do? Or do you? brywillis634737.substack.com/p/i-kn… In this piece, I riff on Alfred Whitehead and Michael Reddy with guest appearances by Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, reluctantly Steven […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

📚 I assembled 10 fiction novel recommendations and decided to make a post on Substack. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/fict… Then I asked Z.ai to profile me based on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Put Whitehead's Science and the Modern World to bed. It has some good ideas, especially for its placement in time (1925), but he ends up too mired in indefensible metaphysics. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hl38sR9ht… […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

What if the universe has, say, 11 dimensions, and the limitations of our sense perception faculties can't process the others? What if we had access to one more dimension: what would reality be then? What does this tell us about possible limitations in both […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I share additional assets related to my post on the Quantum Theory chapter of Alfred North Whitehead's book Science and the Modern World […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Been reading Whitehead on Quantum Theory. It's over 100 years old, and it shows. Still, it provided food for thought regarding the fundamental behaviour of electrons […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Consider the epistemological problem with knowledge itself. I consider Lakatos and Gettier and problems of belief. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/epis… #Philosophy #Epistemology #Language #Knowledge #blog #podcast #Belief #Truth […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Having just finished Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli (and having engaged with more of his material elsewhere), I asked Claude to compare his positions with mine – acknowledging the intellectual debt I owe him for the ideas I've borrowed from him […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Would Alexandre Dumas have used an LLM? I asked an LLM. It said yes. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/woul… Dumas is famous for having authored many books: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

A list of videos and books that capture a chronology of the history of France from the 770s through the 1940s. philosophics.blog/2026/09/05/french… #french #france #history #books #film #videos #recommendations #blog #lists #classics

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Le philosophe du langage Bry Willis soutient que la couleur n’est ni une propriété intrinsèque des objets ni une fabrication purement mentale, mais le produit singulier de la rencontre entre un percevant et le monde […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch? brywillis634737.substack.com/p/what… I discuss the encounter of colour in this article, which builds on The Architecture of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Railing on about democracy is a popular topic. I don't particularly support the notion, and I've spent years cataloguing why not. In this article, it's mostly about how democracy simply can't operate at scale. That it can barely operate in a marriage of two […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I was inspired to write about affordances this afternoon. 🐵 brywillis634737.substack.com/p/what… Water to a non-swimmer doesn’t afford swimming any more than a tree affords climbing for a fish – and yet does for a chimp […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

What is time exactly? I've been mired in time these past few days – and space, truth be known – and I've seen a few notifications by IAI about said same. ⏱️ brywillis634737.substack.com/p/is-t… The debate continues. #time #physics […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Companies are literally abysmal at strategy or even knowing what it is. ⚾ brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-… This was one of the biggest complaints in my years as a management consultant. I viewed a clip on strategy in baseball […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Capitalism Is Theft: Anyone participating in it is either a thief or a victim – channelling Proudhon in the moment. philosophics.blog/2026/08/25/capita… #philosophy #capitalism #economics #politics #history #poster #blog #resources […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Some claim we can be aware of our own outrage and biases through careful introspection. I disagree that this introspection option isn't simply unavailable; there's nothing to inspect – the folly of psychology. 👉 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

If you ask the grass, the zebra is the monster and the lion is the protector. #perspective #philosophy #value #life #analogy #metaphor

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

People get uncomfortable when they hear someone say that human life has no inherent value. All value is extrinsically assigned but is ostensibly unearned. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/mora… #philosophy #morals #ethics […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

« We repeat today what we have held before: An officer may enter a home without a warrant if he has “an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury.” » What's wrong with this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I discuss a podcast by Kristen Lindquist, who does a fantastic job dismantling some misunderstandings of the relationship between emotions and the brain, but her reconstructions are equally suspect. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-… […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Don't read Cioran to fall asleep. Most who know me know that I don't support Democracy (or Republics for the pedants out there) as a political system. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/put-… This distrust of Democracy predates Trump by […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

There is a recurring moment in ambitious philosophy when diagnosis gives way to consolation. The diagnosis is often excellent. Institutions privilege what they can measure. Existing categories reproduce themselves. Prediction inherits the past. Bureaucracies […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Full disclosure: I've long been suspicious of psychology and its claims. Sabine Hossenfelder points out how psychology corrupts neuroscience and cognitive science. At least that's my take. 🧠 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I came to Norman Fairclough late, and by accident. A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis was printed without a single reference to critical discourse analysis, which in retrospect looks less like restraint than like a gap in my reading […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I've long been suspicious of claims of agency – and of psychology more generally. And I'm still unsurprised at how many misunderstand the notion of evolution and the problem of natural selection, not as a process but as a phrase. 👉 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

The Enlightenment has driven the West down a dead-end alley, but they haven't quite yet sussed this out. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/post… #enlightenment #psychology […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

This is less what I am reading than what I've just finished, but you can check out what I'm up to by following the link to Goodreads. philosophics.blog/2026/08/10/what-a… That I am reading a book is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

The Pathology of Happiness: Job, Finland, and the Invention of the Good Life My latest #Substack. 👉 brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-… I look at the pursuit of happiness relative to other […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Language is overrated. In this Substack piece, I scrutinise language and the fact that much of language is extraneous. As for spoken language, many utterances are not strictly necessary, though they are functional […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

When is a nursing shortage not a nursing shortage? I talk about this on Substack. brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-… #philosophy #substack #economics #healthcare #nursing #employment #hiring #management #labour #ethics […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

I am trying something new on Substack. substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/… I’ve been working on an essay about understanding. The premise is simple enough: LLMs are routinely described […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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