The limits of imagination
“Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished by the internal and…
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13 questions with ChatGPT
ChatGPT in conversation with Kelly Truelove, based on the "13 questions" section in each edition of New Philosopher magazine. Kelly Truelove: Provide an…
Heartspace
I’ve recently become aware that my friendship group is shrinking. And not by design. It’s that classic middle-aged, caught-between-two-poles dilemma that is to blame.…
The paradox of choice
Zan Boag: It’s hard for me not to start with an obvious question, which is: with all the options available to you as a…
Nothing but change
“If you can in one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.” These words were reportedly…
The Novelty edition
“Novelty has a tendency to make us philosophers.” – Virginia Woolf Constantly looking outwards, humans have crossed continents and oceans, invented technological wizardry, created…
The impulse to novelty
“And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.” - Ovid I recently re-read Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical masterpiece The Years ahead…
A dopamine-fuelled world
Zan Boag: Clearly, given your research and writing, we’re going to be speaking about dopamine, but I’d like to look at it through the…
The daily emergency
“[The] selective concern with the ‘inner drama’ enables the writer or artist to capture the essential feature of human experience; it allows him to…
Get love without chance
“I do think that people literally get addicted to cell phones and social media, yes. It’s important to recognise that addiction is a spectrum…
Filling the void
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world…
A doctrine of better-ism
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether…
