Being Immortal
Is living forever something you would really, after some thought, want to do? In the jargon, is it choice-worthy?
Bill Meacham, Ph.D.
What's What: Philosophical Writings Bill Meacham got his college and university degrees in philosophy and then left that field to make his living as a programmer, software designer, project manager and requirements analyst. But he never quit thinking about the nature of reality and his place in it, the nature of human beings and how it makes sense to live our lives.
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Teleological Evolution
Evolution does show foresight and intention, as does life in general. This essay examines the issue in some detail. This one is a bit longer than usual, but bear with me. It gets positively cosmic at the end.
Fearing Death
Under The Hood
Reassessing Morality
More About Function
Soul Function
What's In A Name
An unhelpful idiom
Sentient Beings
A Finely Tuned Universe
Some Observations on C. S. Peirce
Cognitive Phenomenology
Daniel Dennett, Existentialist?
Organisms Are Not Machines
Arguing For God
Learning from Zarathustra
An Impeccable Death
The Most Important Thing to Know
Ways to Say "Should"
Self After Death
In Defense of Panpsychism
The Good
Is Science a Religion?
Mental Causation
Status
On Faith
A Whiteheadian Solution to the Combination Problem
Do Plants Have Goals?
Life Has No Meaning. So What?
Simone de Beauvoir: A Philosophy of Liberation
What do you do with a peak experience?
Pragmatism and The Good
