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Is Everything conscious? — THE PAMPHLET This seems like a silly question. The immediate answer is something like: ‘Of course not! My coffee cup can’t think!’ This response is, of course, true and accurate in the sense that it’s not planning...

I wrote this and it was published today. It's about why you should be a panpsychist

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Right, so we’re supposed to believe both that Mandelson couldn’t afford his osteopath, so had to ask Epstein for money, & that he was so rich that gifts of $75,000 were simply beneath his notice. He’s a liar. A corrupt, repugnant, liar.

I've managed to lock myself out of my house. So that's fun.

Thanks for your talk, Nino! It was so interesting!

In Defence of Dream Harbor How John Stewart Mill, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks can't justify reading cosy-core fiction, but I'm going to do it anyway

I wrote about how those Christmas Tree Cinnamon Bun Coffee Shop Book Shop books aren't necessarily a sign of anti-intellectualism. They can be a way to seek refuge in a world that's going to hell in a handbasket

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I've started using a new app for tracking my reading! Check out my Pagebound profile! pagebound.co/users/consci...

Oh shit how do I delete this????

Starting to see people passing off other people‘s posts as their own now, so I know this place has the juice. It‘s like Twitter old times.

How does one become someone who enjoys running and eating kale?

Christmas t'aint

I just finished it and I'm going to have to sit with it for a few days and probably read more about the surrealist movement. I'm sure there's loads that I'm missing

Two smoothie bowls with The Hearing Trumper placed in front of it

Being pretentious in Sri Lanka

Call for Abstracts: ‘#Heidegger 50 years on – Is There Still a God That Can Save Us?’

The British Society for #Phenomenology Annual Conference 2026 convened by the University of Sussex, UK

Brighton 21 – 23 May 2026

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The Hearing Trumpet and it is... Well surreal

I went on an elephant safari in Sri Lanka.

Also look at my panpsychism t-shirt!

I'm in Sri Lanka and I saw this elephant just by the side of the road. I love elephants 🥹🥹🥹

I'm reading The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. I've not really explored the surrealist movement in depth but I feel this is a good introduction. It's certainly surreal!

Why Couldn’t Esther Greenwood Ever Choose a Life? On The Bell Jar, Sartre, Beauvoir, and why choosing a life feels impossible when every option threatens your authenticity.

I wrote about the Bell Jar and existentialism if you would like to read about it

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#booksky #existentialism #thebelljar #sylviaplath

Drawing the Moustache: Loneliness, The Look, and AI How a forgotten novel foresaw our search for witnesses in digital places

When I started Substack I wrote a post about A Five Year Sentence, a book that I can't stop thinking about, even years later. That post... Was shit.

So I've rewritten it. I'm so proud of it now that I want to share it everywhere. Please read it and validate me

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I wrote about Thief of Time but focusing on Mrs Cosmopilite and Lu-Tze's interpretation of her. What's the difference between "truly, yesterday, I was not born" And "I wasn't born yesterday"?

A How to Guide on Achieving Cosmic Understanding Without Leaving Your House Follow the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite and create your own meaning

I wrote about Derrida and Terry Pratchett. I think I'm quite funny

#derrida #discworld #terrypratchett #philosophy #booksky

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I was in the gym earlier and saw on the news that there is a rise of Christian nationalism in the UK.

I can't even find the words to express how worrying this is...

All Men Are Mortal: On the futility of immortality On Max Winter's short story, 'bunny never sleeps', Simone de Beauvoir and the beauty of dying.

I found a short story on Substack and I loved it, so I wrote about it.

If you enjoy existentialism and death, have a read

#philosophy #existentialism #substack #shortstories

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As a PhD student looking at consciousness, it's the stuff about memory and brains that's making my brain fire.

It also reads like everything that ACOTAR and those kinds of books want to be but fall short

I am not reading enough. My current read is Alchemised and the weight of it is pressuring me to read it quickly

#booksky

"the self is not a sealed container, but a window in a larger house of mind"

I've been experiencing a crisis of self based on cosmopsychism and ego death, so I had to write about it because apparently that's what I do when I get worried by an idea.

This post is about Spinoza, cosmopyschism and a wonderful book called The End of Mr Y ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/philosop...

Why is kafka so relatable?

“Is it not said, every second counts?” - The Way of Mrs Cosmopilite

We can find meaning in the mundane. It's only the setting that gives something a more lofty meaning

We are everyone, we are no one: consciousness and god in the end of Mr y "Individual things are not nothing but modifications of the attributes of god, or are modes by which the attributes of god are expressed in a fixed and definite manner" - Spinoza

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