This wee bit of the exchange between Keith Frankish and Philip Goff really nicely captures the end point, in my experience, of many discussions between panpsychists and the illusionist inclined.

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Some people think direct awareness of the 'external' world would involve magical powers. (It wouldn't, just sensory mechanisms of which we aren't aware.) But these same people are happy to assume direct awareness of mental states -- which, by their own lights, would be magical!

Just got this in the mail!

WE DID IT! Bristol, we made history💚 Thank you so much to the people of Bristol Central who have elected me as their MP As this city's first Green MP, I promise to be a strong, independent voice for Bristol's values, pushing the govt to be bolder on the issues that matter

As always, the media are clustering around #VichyNige like flies on sh1t. But the Green result is far more remarkable, as it happened without the massive publicity Reform was given.

Bonkers, really. Labour got 1.8% more than in 2019. Which, remember, was their ‘worst result since the 1930s’. The key figure tho: the combined vote of the big 2 is 58.5%. In 2010 it was 65% - and that was the lowest it had been for the 2 largest parties since 1918.

Labour won 2/3 of seats with 1/3 of vote share (overestimated by nearly everyone!). FPTP is mad.

Struggling to cope with the fact that the leader of my favourite faction is basically Liz Truss. Though unlike Liz, Magnus still wields considerable power.

Labour got fewer actual votes in 2024 than in 2019. That is utterly ludicrous. Yes, where people vote really matters in our system - but literally nobody expected that. They’d have laughed at you if you said it 24 hours ago.

Tempted by croissants for breakfast but 4 Green MPs and Jeremy Corbyn defending his seat is enough sweet treats for one morning.

The argument for clear language is that it is a courtesy to our fellow humans to find common ground and build up from there. The argument against clear language is that the excrescence of posthumous digestion overdetermines the blandishments of particulated Being-seeming.

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An underappreciated philosophical question is the joy of sleep. I personally love sleeping, and I don’t think it’s a matter of just enjoying waking up feeling refreshed or disliking feeling tired. Sleep itself is awesome!

Was really delighted to be part of this brilliant volume, alongside my coauthor Aditya Ponkshe | आदित्य पोंक्षे. Check it out!

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