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Strawmen and Worldview Solipsism
How our concepts carve up the world informs our views more than explicit argumentation
Feb 12
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Tommy Blanchard
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Consciousness and Metaphilosophy: A conversation with philosopher Walter Veit
A recording from Tommy Blanchard's live video
Feb 10
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Tommy Blanchard
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Walter Veit
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1:04:22
The Self as Brain
Review and reflections on Touching a Nerve by Patricia Churchland
Feb 5
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Tommy Blanchard
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January 2026
Neuroscience's Biggest Mystery: What does it mean to understand a brain?
A Conversation with Computational Neuroscientist Chenchen Li
Jan 31
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Tommy Blanchard
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Chenchen Li
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1:04:46
The Wonderer, the Skeptic, and the Punk
A manifesto of sorts
Jan 29
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Tommy Blanchard
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Of Umwelts and Magic
Clarke’s Third Law meets our partial understandings of the world
Jan 22
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Tommy Blanchard
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The Case for a Varied Life
Don’t put all your eggs-periences in one identity basket
Jan 15
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Tommy Blanchard
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Bad Coffee and the Meaning of Rationality
The difficulty of accounting for taste
Jan 8
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Tommy Blanchard
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2025 Reflections on Cognitive Wonderland
Some thoughts from behind the scenes of the newsletter
Jan 5
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Tommy Blanchard
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The Idea of the Brain
A history of neuroscience, the mind/body problem, and whether the brain is a computer, inspired by the book by Matthew Cobb
Jan 2
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Tommy Blanchard
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December 2025
Solipsism Without a Head Redux
A holiday soliloquy to make you doubt your friends and family's existence
Dec 25, 2025
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Tommy Blanchard
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Our Conceptual Umwelts
All mental models are wrong, some are useful
Dec 18, 2025
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Tommy Blanchard
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