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Being Human
Ex machina
"The truly scary part of AI... is not the thought that we can be replaced by unfree rule-following machines. It’s the intimation AI provides…
Ideas to change your life
Grandstander in the family
When Italian handbag and luggage maker Guccio Gucci retired, handing over to his sons a fortune and the reins of the flourishing business he…
Philosophy and you
Seen and unseen
There’s something deflating about the first time you spot a nebula through a telescope. You’re standing outside in the dark and the cold, squinting…
Society & Culture
The value of boycott
In July 1846, the American writer Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay his poll tax. He couldn’t abide the thought…
Ideas to change your life
Wisdom and philosophy
Wisdom is a word that features in book titles in the ‘Self-help’ section of bookshops, but not so much in the ‘Philosophy’ section (where…
Death
Transformative grief
Zan Boag: I’d like to start with the various ways that one can grieve. I’d like to get a definition of the grieving process,…
Illusions
Perception and reality
By Keith Wilson Taken at face value, the picture of reality suggested by modern science seems radically opposed to the world as we perceive…
Being Human
Being outside yourself
Nigel Warburton: You’ve just written a book called ‘What We Think About When We Think About Football’. How did the book begin? Simon Critchley:…
Death
The Dancer
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein Author/illustrator: Corey…
Happiness
Mindset and manifestation
But the Stoic endorsement of mindset ends there. They would have us put more space between input and output; that is to say, they…
Being Human
13 questions: Christian Miller
From the Flourishing edition, available from our online store What is your demon? My doubts that my work hasn’t made any…