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Wow! I got really sick!

A Crooked Game!

Il-O's Six-sided Scroll

Postscript to Ex Tenebris I and II

Ex Tenebris Tenebrae II

Ex Tenebris Tenebrae I

Radiant Sky VIII

A Christmas Mystery

The First Year

Addendum to Friendliness

Walking Hand in Hand

Bitter Acorns

Radiant Sky VII

Radiant Sky VII

Can God Change a Tire?

Unflappable

Helping Others

The True Greatest Generation

The World as a Skein of Probabilities.

Dreams and Memories of the Past

On Being Paid for Doing What One Loves for Those whom One Likes

Who Made the World?

How is it Possible to Pick up a Shoe?

Addendum to World Not Ending

The World's Not Coming to an End!

Ecumenicism and Rismed (Rimé)

Darkness and Light: An Afterword

Darkness and Light

Darkness and Light

Possession Follows Functionality?

Insights!

Gratitude

Butter bei die Fische!

Zugunruhe

Overdue- Seriously

Overdue for the Big One

Fair Cake-Cutting I

Sitting in the Zendo

Il-O's One Answer

Opaque Forests I

Practice is Over

Addendum to the Variable Beacon

The Variable Beacon

Twenty Six Inches of Rain in Seven Hours

The Metaphysics of Forecasting: A Short Rumination

Addendum to Who We Are

Who are We?

The Winter Beach

For the Maine Subscribers

Addendum to Police Work

Police Work circa 2051 C.E. V -the Conclusion

Police Work circa 2051 C.E. IV

Police Work circa 2051 C.E. III

Police Work circa 2051 C.E. II

Police Work circa 2051 C.E. I

Peace and Kindness

[Re-post] Überschwang ist Schönheit

The Unutterable Sadness of the Lost Ones

Living with Co-Sentients Part III: Going Forward

Living with Co-Sentients Part ll

Living with Co-Sentients I

What Wasn't Done. What Was Left Undone

[Repost] 8 Billion Humans!?

A Tale from the Old Bookshelf

Affiliations (Epistemic Blindspots III)

I Believe in Democracy. Therefore I Believe in the Impossible

The Grand Central Station

Moral Punctiliousness

Apologies Yet Again

Possession Follows Functionality?

"In My Pocket!"

Spell of the Macroid Toe: Mereology I

Who's Aligning Who?

Mind Rides the Winds

Police Work 2050 C.E. III

Police Work 2050 C.E. II

Police Work 2050 C.E. I

Sorites II: Your Life

The Sorites Paradox Soritized.

Unexpected Hazards, Unanticipated Risks

The West Coast

Honored Guests at the Philosophers' Tower!

The Fate of Ifa

The Man on the Slide

Words and Realities

Something Wonderful

Missing You

Addendum to Cataglyphus

Is Ignorance Bliss?

Cataglyphus Sapiens Comes Walking

The Grand Central Station

"On the Bat’s Back I Do Fly after Summer Merrily”

A Flower

Found Art and Other Such

Proof of an External World?

No Perfect Deity, Please! Part II

Unthinkable!

What Difference does a Difference Make?

Signs Addenda

Signs and signs

Turtles! "About Face!" Errata.

Turtles Round and Round

True Names

The Twin Hearts

We Go Up to the Mountain

I Went Up to the Mountain

Turtles All the Way Down?

Addendum to AI VI

AI VI: Grounds for Optimism

Certain & Probable I

Addendum Space II: AI

Personal Space II: AI

Personal Space and Owned Territory

Addendum to Metasophos III

Purpose

The Tower of Vairocana

An Interview with the Metasophos II

An Interview with the Metasophos I

A Fascinating Question

Depths in the Sparkling Waters II

In a Vat? No. On Vacation!

In the Mountains

One Taste

Überschwang ist Schönheit

One Taste

Notes on the Humans

Ethics and Aesthetics II: A Dilemma

Ethics and Aesthetics I

Life Flights in the Night

Addendum to Possibility and Actuality!

Possibility and Actuality in Truth

The Sun Will Surely Rise

A General Theory of Auctions I

Changes Once More!

Notes on the Ants

Addendum to the Brief Chronology

A Brief Chronology of Things Past and to Come

Notes on the Tripodia

Heaven Inc. IV Addendum & Aftermath

Heaven Inc. IV: The Conclusion

Addendum to Joy of Science

The Joy of Science

A Prayer for Those We Dislike

A Short Addendum to AI V

AI V

No Over-achiever Deity, Please!

Überschwang ist Schönheit

Heaven Inc. Part III

Is it Good That You Exist? A Dialogue

Night Migration

Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves, Oh My!

Addendum to a History of the Future II

A History of the Future II

Taking Medicine: the Solution

The Expiration Date

The Three Job Offers Paradox

The Family & the River

An Experiment Subscribers Should be Aware of!

Anisotropic & Inhomogeneous II

Epistemic Blind Spots I

A Puzzle on Taking Medicine

Excuses

Some Changes to Our Newsletter

Rednecks! Roughnecks! No Necks! Part II

Deception

Lux Imago Dei

Addendum to AI IV

Artificial Intelligence IV

A History of the Future 1

The Cliff of Stars II

H v P Part II

To Heal or to Punish

Addendum to Artificial Intelligence III

Artificial Intelligence III

Time Theoretics Part II

Desert Doings

Supererogation

Depths in the Sparkling Waters

Brief Addendum to Patron Saints

Patron Saints

Rednecks! Roughnecks! No-necks! Part I

Heaven Inc. Part II

A Drive Through the Mountains, a Drive through the City

My Big Toe: The Limits of Philosophy

Time, Deep Time, A Day in the Life Part I

Breaking News: Heaven Faces Hostile Takeover! Part I

If Machines could Speak

Paradox

The Eyes Have It

Shaving the Barber

Clarification on "Rely"

Don't Rely on Anything

"By Geniuses for...Idiots"

Back at the Tower

The Comedy Club: Aftermath of the Aftermath

The Paradoxes Try Stand-up Comedy!

Free Guys and Gals?

FG&G? Early

Who's Spoofing Who II

Who's Spoofing Who?

Non-Identity of Indiscernibles

Humor

Addendum to the One Electron

The One-Electron Universe

What's So Great About Free Will?

Philosopher Boot Camp

Purpose

The Few, the Proud, the Logicians!

Out of the Tower

God in the Hands of Angry Sinners

The Greatest Philosopher on Earth

Apologies to Our Readers!

The Identity of (well-nigh) Indiscernibles

What is Owed?

There's Something Happening Here

Gaslighting and Lying

Drawing the Largest Circle

What is the Good Life?

The Tower of Vairocana

Anicca, Revolution, Extinction and Abiding Love

Medieval Philosophy

In From the Cold

A Fried Egg

Addendum to the Brick!

A Red Brick

Talk Like a Philosopher!

The Lawyer Paradox

Addendums

Chief Assistant Deputy Vice Provost of Recruiting Committee Subcommittees

Apprentice to Master

I Fear 😨 Batteries!

A Dream

Quinton's Two Spaces

The Great Carrier Wave

8 Billion Humans!?

A Short Puzzle

Oh Nooooooooo!

Special Poetry Edition #1

Who Needs Us?

What There Isn't: Impossible Objects

The Banach-Tarski Paradox

The 3 Lamps Problem One Last Time

Homes & Hearts

Ageing

Ask the Questions, Discard the Answers

T-shirts and Eigenvalues

If Your Biography was Published

"Unreasonable Effectiveness"

I Fear Batteries!

Imagination

I ❤️ Batteries!

Music and Art

The Three Lamps Problem Yet Again

Miscellaneous Items 1

The Cliff of Stars

What Do We Know for Sure?

Author Review: Hiroshi Yuki

Errata!

Conspiracy Theories

A Bureaucrat's Paradox!

Computers, Consciousness, Intelligence and Sundry Issues

QSB and CA Revisited

van Loon's Lives

Ideas Trivial and Profound & CA

Quorum Sensing Behavior

Computation!

Anisotropic & Inhomogeneous

Fermi's Paradox

The Three Lamps Revisited

Erotetical Questions

ADARO/PDCO: Aliens, Asteroids & Acronyms

The Three Lamps